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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... executive Sol Trujillo would leave the telco on June 30. The group also reported a one per cent dip in first half profit. In property news, Lend Lease reported a loss of almost $600 million for the first half, and has warned of continuing market volatility ...

Back to school for Sunsuper

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... about investment and superannuation issues. The online school covers topics such as good debt, bad debt, investing in property to more complicated issues such as estate planning and maximising retirement savings. Besides the web-based financial literacy ...

SMSFs breach asset rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... previous years SMSFs have at least stayed within the five per cent limit, the massive devaluation of people's share and property portfolios last year meant many SMSF trustees have exceeded the cut-off, said Martin Murden, Partners Superannuation Services ...

Advisers turn to unlisted property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
Nine out of ten advisers are considering investing 15 per cent of their client portfolios into unlisted property investments this year, following last year's listed property trust (LPT) fallout. A survey of over 1,200 advisers conducted by Trilogy Funds ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2009
... Australian Vintage Ltd, Worley Parsons Ltd, ConnectEast Group, Breville Group Ltd, Hastie Group Ltd, Treasury Group Ltd, Valad Property Group, APA Group, Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Group, Goodman Group, Slater & Gordon Ltd, and AGL Energy Ltd. Annual ...

Westscheme spends cash

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... for investments, the funds are put into different asset classes such as Australian equities, international equities and property. "We're a long term investor and we invest money according to that strategy - we're not doing tactical asset allocation," ...

State Super focuses on risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... than its peers because the board's investment decisions so far have been "quite sensible". "We've been out of listed property and made sure that we didn't have any credit in our bonds. "We've made sure that we've had managers in international and domestic ...

Aviva and Legg Mason hire more BDMs

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... products and affiliate asset managers to key dealer groups and advisers using retail platforms. Gunawan previously worked at property firm, Becton and also BT, Aviva and ABN AMRO. "We recognise the importance of the platform market to the long term success ...

Thumbs down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... pay 31 per cent of their income if they could just walk away from an expensive mortgage, wait awhile and buy another property for 25 per cent, maybe even 50 per cent less and at a much lower interest rates? Likewise, the HASP's plan to reduce mortgage ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Residential property investment is the highest performing asset class over the last 20 years according to latest research, and one way to access it is to buy into pooled residential property funds. Lee Hughes, analyst at property research specialist ...