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Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
What happens in Rome stays in Rome. Or so it should have been were it not for the sudden resignation of Japan's Finance Minister following the meeting of G7 finance ministers and central bankers on Valentine's Day. Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi ...

Zenith wins clients and adds to team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Zenith Investment Partners has won four new clients, appointed former Property Investment Research (PIR) associate director, Dugald Higgins, to manage its new direct property research division and added an additional investment analyst, Graeme Miller ...

UniSuper ramps up Asia corporate governance

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The $23 billion UniSuper is taking the corporate governance of its $1 billion investments in Asia to new heights - the fund is extending its proxy voting policy for shareholders to include ventures in the region. UniSuper has already commenced voting ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... locked up more than $20 billion in capital after they suspended redemptions on their mortgage and income funds. According to PIR data, there are at least 50,000 people invested in these funds. These investors now have no access to their capital although ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... these tough times, small to medium size mortgage funds might not be so lucky. According to data from property research group PIR, there are more than 79 pooled mortgage funds in the country. While the top 15 funds boasts at least more than $500 million ...

Investors question direct property valuations

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... just to get it to fit into platforms?" asked Linden Toll, president of the Australian Direct Property Association, at the PIR property investment conference. "For funds under management growth," he said. The disconnect between AREIT and direct property ...

AREITs damaged by exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... to their promise," said Ivor Ries, former journalist and now research director of stock broking firm EL&C Baillieu at the PIR property research conference yesterday. "Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (AREIT); they aren't REITs, they are hedge ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... Investment Research, Dugald Higgins, said that things are not as clear-cut as they may seem. Higgins, an associate director of PIR, said that retail investors and mortgage holders are holding tight to their existing mortgage arrangements and properties ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... of the credit crunch. Going on a different vantage point, Doug Higgins, associate director at Property Investment Research (PIR), said investors should look beyond the listed versus unlisted debate and analyse the quality of the underlying property. ...

Clear lines between ratings and research

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
... houses play vastly different roles when it comes to assessing the value of an investment, said Property Investment Research (PIR). Last week, the government ordered a review of ratings agencies and research houses by the Australian Securities and Investments ...