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Aberdeen eyes insto cash for new Asian property fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... Asset Management is looking to raise US$300-US$400 million from institutional investors with the launch of a new Asian property fund of funds. The closed ended fund of funds, Aberdeen's Asset Management Asia's third, aims to build a portfolio of best ...

Planning group Genesys signs research deal with van Eyk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... allocation and investment research, will also give the planners access to data from alliance partners Advisor Edge on listed property. Genesys, owned by AMP-AXA, has used van Eyk for more than 20 years, van Eyk chief executive Mark Thomas said. "They ...

Hidden threat may lurk on bank balance sheets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... of interest-only loans that were making him nervous. "Those investors are betting that rates don't go higher and that property prices keep rising," he said. But credit demand in Australia is shrinking, causing less mortgages to be written, and Real Estate ...

New mandate flows increasing but more cash lies in wait

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... trillion, the report said. Andrew Keevers, researcher at Rainmaker Information, said new mandate flows to equities and listed property dropped off immediately as the global financial crisis hit. "Superannuation funds held off allocating new money resulting ...

Telstra Super majority returns above 10%

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... Super accumulation investment returns to June 30 included Australian Shares (14.23%), Growth (11.40%), Balanced (10.64%), Property (10.55%), International Shares (10.35%), Defensive Growth (10.09%), Conservative (8.56%), and Fixed Interest (6.20%) and ...

AUI banking on insto retirement capital

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2011
... term returns through a fund that acquires and then owns mature retirement villages," said Mark Pratt, general manager, property, mortgages and capital markets, AUI. Like the retail market, institutional investors have been hesitant to plough money back ...

Insurers face up to harsh environment

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... in Australia and New Zealand since September 2010 to significantly ramp up premiums. Suncorp has placed a $5.8 billion property catastrophe reinsurance program for the financial year to June 30 2012, covering home, motor and commercial property portfolios ...

Westpoint directors face charges

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
Directors from collapsed property investment brand Westpoint will face charges and a possible jail sentence for their role in the company's downfall. Norm Carey and Graeme Rundle are facing two criminal charges each as a result of an investigation by ...

Super funds returns on upwards trend

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... accompanied by local bond markets that have returned more than 6% and international bond market that have returned about 10%. Property returns beginning to come back to normal, especially direct property which earned nearly 11% through the year, just ...

Pigs may fly but they won't default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... reduction in tax exemptions." More taxes: solidarity contribution and broadening the base for value-added tax rates and property taxes. "Improved tax compliance and reduction of tax evasion." Sure, sure. And here in Australia we're complaining about ...