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Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... Capital Management hold the fund's debt securities mandates, while MGPA and Vanguard Investments Australia manage its property investments. QIC and Colonial First State Global Asset Management manage the $31 billion cash investments and Oaktree Capital ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... stocks benefiting from the move to reduce carbon emissions. The fund also benefited from its exposure from global listed property which has been oversold and represented "good value" compared to other assets. But the fund is not immune to the global ...

WW names top fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... managers, which increased their ranking position, had diversified businesses. "Managers focussed purely on equities and property, however, had a somewhat different experience. We would expect to see this trend exacerbated by conditions since the end ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... the economic outlook. According to the Beige Book, manufacturing activity 'slowed in most Districts,' the residential property sector 'remained weak,' and the commercial property market 'slowed in many Districts.' The various government plans, measures ...

Investors question direct property valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
Criticism that some funds and their managers use supposedly artificial unlisted property valuations to bolster portfolio returns illustrates how different groups of investors have fundamentally contrasting views about how to interact with the property ...

Macq inv lending sale won't hit Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... to sell its $3 billion investment lending arm is not expected to affect its Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) leveraged property product, Property Lever. Dean Firth, Macquarie relationship banking executive director, said the group's decision to sell its ...

AREITs damaged by exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
Many listed property trusts (LPTs) fell out of investor's favour because they changed from being from stable, income-producing trusts to highly geared, complex products - but experts believe there's life in the sector yet, just not in its current form. ...

Fortis fund 'On Hold' after CIO departure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
Fortis Investment's High Income Global Property Securities Fund has been put "On Hold" by ratings house Standard and Poor's following the retirement of Nancy Holland, chief investment officer for the property team. Holland is leaving Fortis at the end ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
The bear run of the residential property market is at an end, marked by the surprise slashing of interest rates by the RBA this week, claims RP Data. According to national RP Data property research director Tim Lawless, the residential market has now ...

Motivational advice for advisers

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER OF THE AFA CONFERENCE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... hurting financially right now. There is the triple whammy of their share portfolios getting hit by the market crash, their property portfolios getting hit by the ongoing property slump and the gloomy economic outlook creating job-related anxiety. But ...