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FuturePlus seeks more alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... their international equities exposure and reallocate up to a combined 25 per cent into global listed infrastructure, property, and credit. Michael Block, general manager - investments at FPFS, said he is advising the firm's clients EISS and Chifley Financial ...

All cashed up and ready to pounce

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... acquisition". Many SMSFs that are cashed up are now waiting in the wings to wade back into the sharemarket and, for some, into property. Suggesting that managed fund providers need to do more to appeal to SMSFs, a majority 95 per cent of SMSF trustees ...

The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows. Mark Wist, of Melbourne-based Atchison Consulting, said that the number of property fund managers in Australia has fallen from 1,043 back in 2008 ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... weak weekly jobless claims. It is America's trade deficit with China. It is the investigation into "alleged" illegal US property foreclosures. I'll spare you the stats this time for there is really nothing new here. We know that the US labour market ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
Fidelity banks and property analyst Anita Costa told advisers in Sydney yesterday that while she is concerned over housing affordability levels in Australia, there is no property market bubble. Speaking at the 2010 Fidelity Investment Forum, Costa argued ...

Ironstone partners advisers in property

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
The issue of investing in residential property, particularly through self managed super funds (SMSF), is highly problematic for financial advisers due to restrictions prohibiting them to offer property-related advice, according to Ironstone Group. Sean ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... Survey of Consumer Sentiment for October, and National Australia Bank issues its September Quarter Australian Residential Property Survey. In equities news, CSL Ltd and JB Hi-Fi Ltd hold annual general meetings, and Territory Resources Ltd holds a general ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... average wealth per adult in the country is US$320,000, rising 211 per cent over the past decade due to high levels of property ownership, the strong dollar and the natural resources sector. By providing a study on the low to middle class, the report ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
The $1.6 billion Professional Associations Super has poured $80 million into two direct property mandates and re-allocated $75 million from global bonds to Australian bonds. Paul Kessell, the fund's chief investment officer, said he was not able to ...

Commercial property regains appeal: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... (SMSF) trustees and individual investors found that 55 per cent of investors plan to invest more into listed and unlisted property market this year. The survey found that some 60 per cent of those intending to invest were looking at investment values ...