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Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... property suddenly became the safer and better choice. To illustrate, Hartley said Sunsuper sold an unlisted property investment at 20 per cent plus premium this year. And with valuations as they are now, he said the fund intends to award mandates for ...

Aspen appoints property CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
Property investment and funds management firm, Aspen Group appointed Jonathan Timms to the newly created position of property chief executive. Prior to this appointment, Timms spent nine years in a number of senior roles within AMP Capital Investors' ...

Perennial boosts insto sales

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
Boutique investment firm Perennial Investment Partners has appointed former Invesco portfolio manager Matthew Cahill as institutional sales manager. Prior to this position, Cahill worked at Invesco as portfolio manager in the economics, balanced and ...

IOOF buys 13pc stake in MacarthurCook

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
IOOF has bought a 13 per cent stake in boutique property investment fund manager MacarthurCook. In a statement released last Friday on the Australian Securities Exchange, MacarthurCook confirmed that it would form a "strategic investment management ...

Instos rushing to infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Infrastructure has traditionally hovered at the outskirts of mainstream asset classes - but industry players are now putting more money into the sector as investors seek a safe haven from poor returns. According to RARE Infrastructure, institutional ...

State Super awards $39m property mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... overseas assets. Martin Drew, State Super chief investment officer, said the mandate is not a typical direct property investment. "Rather than being a core property play, it's meant to be a little bit core, a little bit value-add and a little bit opportunistic ...

Clear lines between ratings and research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... product research houses play vastly different roles when it comes to assessing the value of an investment, said Property Investment Research (PIR). Last week, the government ordered a review of ratings agencies and research houses by the Australian Securities ...

Direct property reigns: study

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... fattening investors' bottom lines in the last 20 years, new research shows. According to the Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) and Atchison Consultants, direct property provided strong returns, the highest distributions, lowest ...

Primed and ready for growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... accountants. If we look to apply that integrity, it's a major point of difference," said Anthony McDonald, PrimeSpace Property Investment's chief executive officer. The market correction and shakeout in the sector just highlights how not all property ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...