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Platforms should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Master trusts and wraps should be consolidated into a single government run platform to drive greater efficiencies and lowers costs. Wade Tubman, a director, and Annie Liao, a senior manager in the actuarial practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, told ...

Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Local investors are dipping their toes back into property market but are opting for well-diversified global property trusts instead of concentrated A-REITs. According to Mick O'Brien, chief executive of Invesco Australia, the firm continues to receive ...

RBC Dexia bids faxes goodbye

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... new service, the custodial services provider can process applications, redemptions and confirmations for unlisted unit trusts electronically, saying goodbye to the old days of faxes and other manual-based admin. The move paves the way for more efficiencies ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... the superannuation provider without manual intervention. SuperConnect's software is currently used by public offer master trusts, industry super funds, employer groups directly and payroll bureaus including Australian Wealth Management, Skandia and the ...

BUSS(Q) buys Aussie equities

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... of the market is fundamentally cheap," he said. Another area of focus for the Queensland fund is real estate investment trusts, which last year saw some of the worst performing fund managers lose up to 85 per cent of clients' funds invested in Australian ...

Ex-director banned for 25 years

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... without a licence. ASIC was also concerned that some of the funds raised by the SIH Group were lent to related companies and trusts controlled by Goulding in a manner contrary to statements made to the public. In November 2008 the Court found that Goulding ...

AUI opens unlisted property fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) 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 ...

AMP holds LPT strategy, wins mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... an asset that has some inflation hedge like real estate securities," he said. "There will be a time when listed property trusts (LPTs) perform very well and real estate investment trusts (REITs) perform very well, the key to getting there is the financial ...

AUI adds three

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... Dullahide said that the position was created to strengthen AUI's capital management capability for its unlisted property trusts, focusing on active management and enhancement of the debt arrangements. D'Intino, who has worked as a compliance manager ...

Top and bottom super performance differ by 36pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... funds. This contrasts with their previous league tables that showed peformance of the sub-segments: industry funds, master trusts, corporate funds and public offer funds. The release of the data has sparked much industry debate with the financial services ...