PROPERTY

Financial planning

Australian Unity has revamped the management of some of its products using a multi-manager approach. Salomon Smith Barney now manages 50 per cent of Australian Unity’s Pr...

Funds management

National Asset Management has lost its most senior property manager with the resignation of Graham Brewer....

Funds management

Members of major superannuation funds could be forgiven for thinking last year’s bull run passed them by as Australian pooled superannuation funds recorded their lowest r...

Funds management

Rising interest rates will be the Achilles heel of the property investment market, according to Jones Lang Lasalle sales and investment managing director John Henderson....

Financial planning

Swiss Re, one of the biggest reinsurance groups in the world, has purchased US-based Underwriters Re, the property and casualty reinsurer of Alleghany Corp, for $US725 mi...

Financial planning

Confidence in investment markets is at its highest level in recent years, according to the latest Challenger/ Assirt Investment Sentiment survey....

Funds management

Residential property remains the key plank in the retirement plans of most New Zealand-ers according to a new survey commissioned by Armstrong Jones....

Financial planning

Ipac Securities is fast expanding its global reach and has its integrated systems op-erating in New Zealand, Taiwan and, now, in South Africa....

Funds management

A strong property market has meant most property fund managers have passed on pay increases of between 5 to 6 per cent this year....

Funds management

The Australian Exempt Property Market will shortly announce new managers joining, according to MCS Property’s Julius Colman....

Superannuation

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) yesterday called on the Federal Government to establish an inquiry into retirement incomes policy as part of a drive...

Financial planning

AMP Asset Management has opened its $580 million private capital investment portfolio to the retail market....

Financial planning

While others dealer groups have been snapped up by big institutions, Count Wealth Accountants, Australia’s largest independent financial planning group, looks set to floa...

Financial planning

Resource stocks have been the darlings of the stock market this year. Zilla Efrat asks if the good times will continue to roll....

Funds management

Potential investors in property syndicates need not be afraid of the Ralph tax reforms, according to one industry pundit....

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