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SMSF direct property investment jumps 60pct

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... Ownership, the primary financial markets regulator revealed that as of March 2015, the value of residential real property investments through SMSFs was $21.78 billion, or 3.7% of total Australian and overseas assets. This is up from $19.49 billion, or ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... investment grew at a rate of 14.7% in the year 2012-2013. The figure confirms the rate has remained steady since. Property investments by SMSFs make up $80.9 billion of all SMSF investments, or 15.22% of their total assets. Residential property constitutes ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... portfolio has now over $7 billion in assets and plans to have around 10% of the fund's assets allocated to property investments over the next three to four years.

AustralianSuper inks $1.1bn US property deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... in property assets after this deal and aims to have around 10 per cent of the fund's assets allocated to property investments over the next three to four years. "This deal demonstrates how the size and scale of AustralianSuper allows Australians to be ...

Super only 35% of retirement nest egg

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... remaining bulk of their retirement income." Savings make up 11.6% of the retirement nest egg, followed by property investments (7.8%) and inheritance (4.3%). The research found that Gen Y are particularly reliant on other sources of retirement income ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... Housing Industry Association (HIA) last year that noted 74% of tax payers who receive rental income from property investments have a taxable income of less than $80,000. Critics of investment property negative have dismissed the HIA claim but with an ...

AusSuper grants London property mandate

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... arrangement with TH Real Estate is similar to that AustralianSuper negotiated with QIC last year over its US property investments. Rather than provide the fund manager with a lump sum to invest as it will, there is no set investment, and AustralianSuper ...

QBE invests in Invesco property fund

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... institutional size." The Fund focuses on a broad tenant base, strong security of income and stabilised assets. Property investments are diversified across the Multifamily, Retail, Industrial and Office sectors, with a geographic focus on the major metropolitan ...

Charter Hall profits dip 4.3%

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... million of gross equity inflows during the half with $213 million raised since half-year end. Charter Hall's property investments total $622 million at 31 December 2013, up from $603 million at 30 June 2013. The group's investment portfolio annualised ...

AustralianSuper takes 50% stake in UK shopping centre

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... November. While AustralianSuper has employed external managers (QIC and Henderson) to assist them in their direct property investments, they have classed investments made through these channels as part of their in-house investment strategy, as the super ...