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CORRECTION: FT loses international prop manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... Boris Pialloux, has left the firm prompting S&P Fund Services to place its three-star ratings Franklin International Property Fund and Property Income Fund on hold. Global portfolio manager and head of Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors, Jack Foster ...

UPDATE: Prime Super drops $14m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... continues to hold a $20 million mandate with Lend Lease, with the funds invested in the fund manager's Australian Prime Property Fund Industrial. Prime Super has been seeking haven from volatile markets in cash, and has avoided handing out or topping ...

Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... exposures are the US (52 per cent), France (9.9 per cent) and Japan (9.7 per cent). But like many of its global listed property fund manager counterparts, the firm posted hefty double digit losses last year at 55.8 per cent, against the benchmark's 58.3 ...

Caravan parks deliver high income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2009
... are shaping up to be a fresh option for financial planners looking for income-producing products after Aspen Parks Property fund returned more than eight per cent in income last year. According to the firm's December fund report, the Aspen Parks Property ...

No bail-out for cash-strapped assets

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Super funds with unlisted property in their portfolio should be prepared to "let failures fail" - particularly if managers are requesting more inflows to a poorly performing fund, said a leading investment consultant. Fiona Trafford-Walker, managing ...

PIR sold to Aegis

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Specialist research house Property Investment Research has been bought by Aegis Equities Research. According to an email that was circulated among PIR clients, Aegis plans to continue running PIR as a standalone business. However, there are "a number ...

GESB seeks more unlisted exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
West Australian-based Government Employees Superannuation Fund (GESB) is considering increasing its current asset allocation of 5 per cent into unlisted assets after it was hard hit by the downfall of equities markets. GESB, which had $8.4 billion in ...

AUI opens unlisted property fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... is converting five of the firm's existing retail property syndicates and trusts into a single open-ended unlisted property fund. The Retail Property Trust was developed after investors approved the conversion of the five syndicates and trusts into a ...

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 ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Real estate could soon be a threatened asset class if property fund managers are not transparent about the sales and devaluation of their funds, says a US property investment expert. The slow trickling of cash flows into the global REITs sector has ...