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Prime Super buys hospital carparks for stable revenue, growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... Baird said that Prime Super had spare capacity to invest in alternative investments including infrastructure, credit, property and private equity, to a total of 7% of the fund. "We're definitely looking to increase the alternative side, not just infrastructure," ...

CBD vacancies hit 2-year low

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
Office vacancy rates falling to their lowest level in two years reinforces the recovery in direct property returns, albeit it doesn't resolve the mixed messages coming from the sector. Total vacancy in Australia's office markets decreased from 9.6 to ...

Help for advisers with super death tax impact on SMSFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... about the potential for capital gains tax (CGT) liabilities to be imposed on the sale of real estate, especially since property held outside an SMSF and left to adult children in a will is exempt from CGT under certain conditions. SMSF specialist firm ...

Resolution Capital opens US office with senior hire

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... international funds management businesses and has worked in the US and the UK. "The Resolution investment strategy is to look at property stocks by sector first which differentiates us from our competitors who focus on geography first," Promisel told ...

Former Liberal leader named Equiti Capital chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... instrumental in planning the group's long-term business strategy as it moves through the final stages of its U.S. Multifamily Property Fund. The group is securing its first US multifamily property investment. "Equiti Capital is a young business, but ...

SMSFs exposed in related party transactions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Self-managed super funds can buy property from related parties but they are better off paying market rates and behaving as if at arm's length, a superannuation legal expert has said. Maria Siu, special counsel on Superannuation for Townsends Business ...

Super funds want a cost-benefit analysis on disclosure

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... was in. She said members want to know whether it is invested in infrastructure, shopping centers, mortgage securities, property, fixed interest. "We've got broad asset classes," she said. "But I think one of the things people really do value, is where ...

In defence of superannuation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... funds average 52% but for retail funds it's 61% and if you include retail's preference for listed rather than direct property this increases to 66%, explaining why retail funds are much more vulnerable to equity market falls. The bigger problem is longevity ...

China demand for Australian resources to fall: JP Morgan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... banks it is now set at 19.5%. In 2005 the rate was less than 8%, with the massive hikes aimed at popping the Chinese property bubble. Inflationary pressure would be reduced by weaker commodity prices caused by a weaker global economy, she wrote. About ...

nabInvest swoops for Aviva

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... significant opportunity to grow and expand the business." The deal does not include Aviva Investors Australia's direct property investment business. For Aviva Investors, the asset management business of global insurance group Aviva, the exit form Australian ...