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Super delivers 12.2% for year end April

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Rainmaker said falls in the value of the AUD are likely to account for half the returns on international assets. Direct property meanwhile delivered 11%, Australian shares 10%, Australian and international bonds 9% each. But highlighting concerns over ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
A potential property gearing announcement in the federal budget for self-managed super funds is unlikely to impact funds as much as people expect, according to the SMSF Association's Graeme Colley. The association technical director told a recent event ...

Suspended SIV scheme raised $3bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... program include mandating a significant proportion of foreign investment into risky venture capital funds. Specialist property investor Ausin Group has benefitted from the SIV scheme through the investment of SIV holders capital in Australian property. ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... the slow take-up from the non-resource sector of the economy; the weakened but still high Australian dollar; expensive property prices (but mainly in Sydney); low wages and high household debt; low business confidence and investment, etcetera. "To this ...

Defensive pension pots just won't last

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... diversified portfolio (43% cash/fixed income, 26% Australian equities, 17% international equities, 10% alternatives and 5% property), would be able to fund their retirement, on average, for an additional eight years, before their savings run out. Mark ...

Hockey contemplates first home buyer access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... to their superannuation to buy their first home. When asked if people should be able to use their super savings to buy property, Hockey answered: "It is incredibly hard for young Australians to get into the first home market. We are prepared to look ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... arrangements put the entire economy at risk of collapse, Burgess presented a chart showing the performance of residential property superimposed against the growth in limited recourse borrowing arrangements. LRBAs barely registered as a thin, flatish ...

FSI proposal to ban LRBAs "draconian"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2015
... without advice," Anderson said, and argued against a complete ban of self-managed super fund (SMSF) borrowing to buy property. Speaking at an AFA GenXt roadshow in Sydney, Anderson referred to the FSI recommendation that superannuation funds could transfer ...

Atchison Consultants appoints senior consultant

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... managers, large banks, rating houses and listed REITs, and is a past member of the Executive of the Property Funds Association of Australia, the representative body for the unlisted property trust sector in Australia, Atchison Consultants said.

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... fraction of the cost; and the trend for the largest institutional investors to manage large cap equity, infrastructure and property assets through their own investment teams. It remains to be seen whether this trend will accelerate in 2015; alpha hunters ...