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Super fund achieves first carbon neutral portfolio

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... against the National Carbon Offset Standard for Buildings. The NABERS rated buildings in the Local Government Super direct property portfolio include four commercial office buildings in the Sydney CBD, North Sydney and Macquarie Park in NSW. The portfolio ...

Super funds hungry for global stocks, alternatives

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... and ethical investments (up 37%), private equity (up 24%), other alternatives (up 17%), hedge funds (up 19%) and direct property (up 11%).

FEW recognises Thalia Stanley Group founder

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... Mays. Melbourne-based Mays launched Thalia Stanley Group five years ago with the aim of mentoring and providing direct property investment education. "In 2019, it is very real that gender inequality is still an inhibitor to women earning a decent living ...

Prime Value recruits former super fund chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... investment group that includes Shakespeare Property Group, managing more than $1.5 billion across equities, cash plus, direct property and agriculture investment. Last year Financial Standard to spoke to chief investment officer and portfolio manager ...

APN Property launches direct regional fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... also forego the need to pay stamp duty or asset acquisition costs because the fund already exists. For typical direct property investments however, this is not the case. The fund's manager, Tom Forrest, said the two office buildings were over 96% leased ...

Class enhances XPLAN integration

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... assets. Users will be able to vie all investments held within Class and XPLAN, including unlisted assets such as direct property. The data feed also allows advisers to pick and choose accounts between the two systems. The new functionality enables users ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... the balance. Exposures to property also dropped slightly from 19.3% last year to 18.9% in June 2018. Of this, direct property took the biggest hit having climbed to 16.2% last quarter before dropping to 15.3% in the June quarter. However, direct property ...

AustralianSuper awards international property mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... its investment strategy in the UK and Europe. It follows the super fund awarding an extended office and retail direct property equity mandate to the $160 billion real estate manager in March. AustralianSuper head of mid-risk Jason Peasley said the One ...

Unlisted property returns surpass equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Unlisted property also outperformed listed property (9.7%), fixed income (4%) and cash (1.95%). Meanwhile, the direct property markets continued to perform strongly, delivering 11.7% for the period; income returns were stable at 5.7%. The structural ...

Westpac ditches SMSF lending

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... asset allocation into the following: direct shares (36%) cash and cash products (23%), managed investments (22%), direct property (12%) and other (4%). The study of 1096 SMSFs showed 82% agreed diversifying their SMSF is important but in practice many ...