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Baby boomers set to live it up in retirement: CommBank

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
A Commonwealth Bank (CBA) survey has revealed that baby boomers will approach retirement in a far more active way than past generations, with two-thirds believing they will be able to afford their lifestyle of choice. The Lifestyle Aspirations survey ...

Pentacle hits the market with diversified direct property

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
Pentacle Property Funds Management has announced its arrival and at the same time unveiled its new unlisted diversified property fund of funds with a focus on liquidity. Speaking at the launch, Pentacle and Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) ...

Centro looms large with $1bn launch

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
Centro has announced the largest property syndicate ever made available in the Australian market, and with a total value of $1 billion it believes the US-focused property fund might be hitting the market at just the right time. Driven by continued investor ...

Go overseas, but go carefully: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2006
... director, head of global client services. Australian investors, however, are not alone in looking abroad for fresh property investment opportunities. "It's the same in the UK and continental Europe. And in a few years time it will be the same in Asia," ...

Qld to dominate Future Fund board of guardians

Queenslanders may only account for only 8 per cent of funds management in Australia, but they control half the seats on the Future Fund board of guardians. The Government has just announced the appointment of six members of the Future Fund board of ...

Manage the property, don't chase the sector: Centro

Finding a country with a booming retail property sector and diverting your investment capital accordingly is not as important as the bottom up management of your direct property investments, according to Centro. On the back of its announcement that ...

Centro opens international property fund to retail investors

Centro Properties Group (Centro) announced that it has opened the doors of its Centro Direct Property Fund International (DPFI) to retail investors. The fund has approximately a 90 per cent exposure to international direct retail property and is an ...

SMSFs must diversify or miss out: Bourse Data

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) investors may be missing out on returns from growth assets by placing a disproportionate amount of their superannuation savings into cash and property. According to recent data from the Australian Tax Office (ATO), an ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2006
... points for the first time since March 2001, with property shares surging after the government outlined new property investment trusts in its annual budget and as bid talk boosted ITV. The FTSE 100 closed at 6007.5, up 16.2 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX ...

Colonial poaches UBS property securities staff

... Miranda Moran, former investment analysts at UBS Global Asset Management, will also join the Colonial team as property investment analyst. CEO of Colonial First State Global Asset Mangement, Warwick Negus, recognised the success of the newcomers' former ...