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Merger plans for AUI and Lifeplan

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
The $5.5 billion Australian Unity is planning to merge with Lifeplan Funds Management - a deal that would create a funds management group with more than $7 billion in funds under management. Australian Unity announced late last week that a merger proposal ...

More room to grow: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... firms specialising in international equities, listed property and global fixed interest. David Bryant, head of investments at AUI, said that the fund manager has capacity to "do a couple more" 50/50 style joint ventures - provided the partnership, relationship ...

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 ...

AUI adds to BDM team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Australian Unity Investments hired Alvin Leach and Huw O'Grady as regional manager and business development manager respectively. Prior to this position, Leach worked at Colonial First State as a business development manager. He has also worked as a ...

AUI adds three

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has made three new appointments, including the creation of a new position of capital markets manager. Carolyn Ireland has been appointed as capital markets manager, Linda D'Intino as senior compliance manager, and ...

AUI trust posts solid returns, holds value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
While many funds were in the red last year, Australian Unity Investments (AUI) bucked the trend when its Healthcare Property Trust gained 11.27 per cent and, despite the market downturn, many of its underlying direct properties have held their value. ...

Investors back AUI property proposal

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... proposal to staple five property syndicates to establish a $400 million retail property fund. A recent media report claimed that AUI had failed to win investor support to convert the five property trusts and syndicates into the mega fund. However, AUI ...

Vianova weathers financial crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... Investments. Investors who liquidated assets to protect income by moving into cash should seriously rethink their strategies, said AUI. Right now, the return and risk outlooks for other fixed income products such as bonds are looking "significantly better" ...

AUI and DirectPortfolio adopt AML service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) and DirectPortfolio adopted OneVue's anti-money laundering (AML) reporting and record keeping service. AML Explorer can be downloaded online and presents the AML legislation in a simple format that allows users to ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... witnessed a spike in withdrawals. To date four of the country's top ten mortgage fund providers - Perpetual, AXA, Challenger and AUI - have all either suspended applications or redemptions for their mortgage or income funds, freezing more than $6 billion ...