Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 3761 - 3770 of 5858 results for "Property"

LGS appoints managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... for more than 100,000 members and focuses on a socially responsible investment portfolio, including equities and direct property. In July LGS sold its half stake in admin and investment provider FuturePlus to its other half-owner Energy Industries Superannuation ...

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Commercial property transactions above $5 million rebounded to $2.6 billion in the third quarter, up 268 per cent sequentially and up 75 per cent on last year, according to figures released by CB Richard Ellis. And while Australian super funds are dipping ...

Asia-Pac HNWI market approaches US$10 tn: report

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... fastest rate of growth in the region had 127,000 HNWIs and US$477 billion in wealth. Confirming Australia's obsession with property, Australian HNWIs were the heaviest investors in real estate in the region, with 40 percent of Australian HNWI assets ...

Intrust rolls out advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... advice and not just on superannuation matters. "Intrust360 offers strategies inclusive of direct investment in shares, property, aged-care strategies and estate planning without a product bias," he said. Intrust is also making use of technology by creating ...

MLC nabs PM from Alliance Bernstein

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
MLC has appointed a new portfolio manager for property and unlisted assets. Stuart Keighran has joined the investment manager from Alliance Bernstein, and will be responsible for MLC's property and unlisted asset strategies. Keighran will undertake ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... direct investments should also go through the same tests. "I would argue that in the direct investment space, particularly property and infrastructure, the risks are far more material and the opportunities are also far more material," said Amanda McCluskey ...

SSgA ETF targets high yields

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... stocks. In addition to the latest product, SSgA offers the SPDR S&P/ASX 200, SPDR S&P/ASX50 and the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 Listed Property Fund to investors.

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property mandate with AMP Capital Investors following a $100 million Sydney CBD office acquisition. AMP Capital Investors' Property Portfolio Services has a mandate with Sunsuper to manage a diversified, direct property ...

Aust Unity to buy Westpac FML

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Australian Unity Investment (AUI) buys Westpac Funds Management Limited (WFML), taking its total property funds under management to $1.7 billion. WFML is the responsible entity of the Westpac Diversified Property Fund (WDPF), with AUI agreeing to a ...

Future Fund rebounds

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... grew from 16 per cent of the portfolio, or roughly $9 billion, to 25 per cent of the portfolio, or about $16 billion. Property and infrastructure assets, which the fund said provides it with "consistent income streams over the long term that are expected ...