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ETFs weather one-stock shocks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... State Street that cover Australian indicies including the S&P/ASX 50, S&P/ASX 200, and the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 listed property fund. There are also another 11 international ETFs available in the market. Whether ETFs will take off as an investment vehicle ...

Ray White targets instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... has begun a formal review of Ray White Invest for its clients. "This year we aim to raise a $100 million direct property fund, but in order to do that we need to grow our business into the small institution, brokerage and private banking sectors," he ...

High rates pose threat to direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
Fears of buffeting problems in Australia's listed property sector will spill over to its direct counterpart are unfounded because the real threat lies in increasing rates, according to Property Investment Research (PIR). The Australian direct property ...

Ray White snaps up Woolies property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
While the Australian LPT sector continues to hover at a precipice of continuing falls, specialist fund managers with cash to spare are now at the vanguard of new acquisitions - with some even picking up a shopping centre or two along the way. Specialist ...

Martin quits OFG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
John McBain has been appointed chief executive of the Over Fifty Group (OFG) following the resignation of Christopher Martin. Appointed director at OFG in 1996, McBain was founder and director of Century Funds Management before OFG purchased it. McBain ...

MacarthurCook ventures to the long white cloud

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... Listed investment management company, MacarthurCook Limited, has scooped a third of the equity in New Zealand-based property fund manager, Kinloch Funds Management - but future ventures into the NZ market remains uncertain. The recent acquisition will ...

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Property fund manager, Valad Property Group, has launched a new wholesale property fund targeting the UK property market. Valad announced last week the close of its first capital raising for the company's $1.1 billion Opportunity Fund targeting multi-sector ...

US titans fall, Australia will rise

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... ripple effects of the crisis. But despite some of CFS's investors taking a blow from their investments in embattled property fund Centro, Kunnen said that the firm's future investment strategies remain unchanged. "Investment processes take years of development ...

Standing in the eye of the storm

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... established "Centro" name is now often synonymous with the words "problematic", "collapsed" and "embattled", but other property fund managers have begun to see silver linings following the Centro meltdown. Listed property funds manager, Aspen Group ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... as miners benefited from firmer metal prices, while beaten-down real estate stocks were lifted by news of a new property fund. The FTSE 100 closed at 6,215.7 points, up 13.7 or 0.22 per cent. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed at 5,403.51 points, up 32.1 ...