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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... gold in Sydney was $US1,819.75 per ounce, up $US53.86 from Friday's $US1,765.89. Shares in shopping centre owner and property developer Lend Lease fell 21 cents or 2.8 per cent to $7.36, despite its announcement it was included in the Dow Jones' Sustainability ...

Perpetual shuts $1bn mortgage funds to focus on income

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... the large number of retirees, for stable capital and consistent monthly income. Meanwhile, the demand for commercial property loans has exceeded demand in recent years with banks and traditional mortgage funds unable to lend, resulting in potentially ...

New property fund built for average earners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
Public offer superannuation fund, TIC Super, has launched a new residential property fund targeting middle Australia. The TIC Diversified Australian Residential Property Fund (DARP) aims to provide low risk exposure to property investments for people ...

Insurance industry prepared for black swan flock

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... services, Aon Risk Solutions, Australia, said that companies were feeling the effects of costs and coverage of commercial property insurance. "Overall, there has been a reduction in capacity for catastrophe peril in general, as insurance companies look ...

SMSFs given leeway on property assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Self managed super fund trustees will be allowed to make improvements to property assets under a proposed new ruling from the Australian Taxation Office, which has also relaxed its interpretation of single acquirable assets. The ATO's draft ruling on ...

FUM market slides back to $1.4tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... March 2009," revealed the researcher. The five fastest growing asset classes are ethical/SRI, hedge funds, international property, international fixed and Australian equities. The cash weighting across the FUM market has continued to decrease and is ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... education, defense and investments, among others. Who's left to pay the higher VAT, the solidarity levy, the increased property taxes, the luxury levies, etcetera, etcetera. Now, do you still wonder why Greece's budget deficit widened by 22% in the first ...

Australian Unity revenue reaches $1bn

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... growing its retirement living business, with negotiations underway to acquire more villages for its Retirement Village Property Fund, which is open to institutional investors. Earlier this week the fund made its first purchase, the Geelong Grove Retirement ...

Bear markets provide investment opportunites

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... continuation of what we have seen for the past year or two, the retail and finance part of the market is not doing so great with property struggling while materials and primary production will probably continue reasonably well," Hobart told Financial ...

Investors look for business activity signals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2011
... worth watching is REITs, especially trusts that have properly de-leveraged and got back to sourcing and running quality property projects paying sustainable income streams out of earnings rather than through cash artificially released via some type of ...