Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 831 - 840 of 1160 results for "Trusts"

Super averages 15.3 pct for 2006-07

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2007
... has also pushed them to achieve a segment average of 15.9 per cent, 190 basis points above the average return for master trusts. The low master trust outcome, however, is dragged down by some master trusts continuing to have default options that are ...

Sentiment to Aust shares stays high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... fall over the next year has remained steady at about one in four survey respondents. Interestingly, super funds and master trusts were less upbeat about Australian equities than advisers and investment managers, but the reverse was the case for international ...

Maxim throws weight on unlisted property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... launched a new fund which will invest up to 60 per cent in Australian unlisted property due to the increased risk of listed trusts, said managing director and chief executive Winston Sammut. Sammut said, 'Although the Australian LPT sector has produced ...

CFS ploughs $280m in Myer property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... Family Company. CFS will initially outlay $276.6 million, while settlement is expected by mid August 2007. CFS Property Trusts fund manager Michael Gorman said, "This is a very important and strategic acquisition for the trust, providing us with another ...

Super fund returns best in a decade: SelectingSuper

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... Importantly, he said, members looking for the best performing Australian share investments were still much better off with master trusts, as this is where these products showed their strength. "There are also huge differences emerging between the best ...

ASIC calls for comment on MIS liquidity

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
... ASIC said the proposed guidance notes would be particularly relevant to pooled mortgage schemes, which operate as unit trusts where investors contribute money to be on-lent to finance asset backed mortgages. ASIC said the proposals were triggered by ...

Plan to give: Perpetual

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... money with others for greater return to donate to charitable causes," Knowles explained. Traditionally many charitable trusts form part of an individual's will, but forming a trust as part of an ongoing planned giving strategy in the form of a prescribed ...

Industry funds show strongest growth in assets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... out nine of the top 10 places for default option returns over the past three years and 17 places from the top 20. Master trusts still, however, dominate the sector tables particular for investors choosing geared, small cap and emerging companies options. ...

Austock picks new non-executive director

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
... CountryWide Retail Trust, as well as director or alternate director for other Macquarie listed property and infrastructure trusts. McFarlane also repositioned the Macquarie Property Funds Management team, taking it from less than $100.0 million in 1994 ...

Ord Minnett adds to planning team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... 10 years specializing in estate planning, superannuation death benefits, wills, challenges to wills, deceased estates, trusts and business succession planning. Williams is currently chair of the Financial Planning and Superannuation Committee for the ...