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GESB hires two investment strategists

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
GESB has appointed former Citigroup executive Kate Budiselik and ex-Coronation Fund Managers portfolio manager Edwin Schultz as investment strategists. Budiselik and Schultz will be part of the investment team managing WA-based GESB's $10.4 billion ...

Full steam ahead for Aberdeen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Aberdeen Asset Management confirms it will proceed with its $540 billion acquisition of a slice of Credit Suisse's Global Investors business as planned, despite S&P placing 29 Credit Suisse funds "on hold". Aberdeen said last month that it would buy ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... Ltd and Virgin Blue Holdings Ltd. On the final day of the agm season proper, other meetings include troubled property investor Centro Properties, Babcock & Brown Capital, Cazaly Resources Ltd, Fat Prophets Australia Fund Ltd, Golden West Resources Ltd ...

Sustainable property boosts returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Property investors looking for long term value will increasingly focus on sustainability factors to boost the relative value of their projects and lift rental returns. Simon Theresia, investment consultant at Watson Wyatt, said, "We believe sustainability ...

Aberdeen climbs ranks after Goodman buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... direct and indirect property portfolio services across mandates and pooled funds. Roughly 93 per cent of Goodman Property Investor's assets under management are invested indirectly or directly in the UK market. This makes Aberdeen Asset Management's ...

ADPIA lobbies against relic property laws

The peak body for direct property investors has called for each State Revenue Office in Australia to standardise stamp duty and get rid of archaic property trust regulations. Linden Toll, the president of the Australian Direct Property Investment Association ...

Another DIY take on home ownership

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
With housing affordability continuing to deteriorate, one of the country's largest banks has come up with a way to get mums-and-dads access to residential property investments without the stamp duty costs nor the tenancy headaches. Westpac Residential ...

MPG eyes commercial property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Melbourne based property funds manager MPG Funds Management (MPG) has launched its $62 million Enterprise Property Trust (Trust) to allow Australian investors access to commercial properties within Australia. The company aims to raise more than $17 ...

Equities sentiment still holding up

Despite the sub-prime induced equities turmoil, sentiment to the sector has stayed remarkably robust in both domestic and international markets. According to the latest Financial Standard market expectations survey, 54 per cent of respondents still ...

MFS bumper year after restructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
It has been a busy year for property investor and developer MFS Group which announced a net profit of $13.4 million for the year to 30 June 2007, beating its May 2007 earnings per security (EPS) forecast by 124 per cent. Excluding Fair Value Adjustments ...