Fund manager Legg Mason has announced it will package its four Significant Investment Visa (SIV) complying funds to provide a solution for advisers....
SMSF investors have a higher propensity to seek out and value advice than non-SMSFs, while nearly half of recent SMSF investors are under the age of 30....
Assets under management (AUM) for the top 100 alternative investment managers reached $3.1 trillion in 2012, with Macquarie Bank taking out the top spot in Towers Watson’...
Asset allocation is typically sold as a simple stocks-versus-bonds split, but there is much more to it than that if you want an effective result. Bhanu Singh points to a ...
With the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms having come into effect as of 1 July, Tria Investment Partners Andrew Baker says the legislation has failed to address ...
AMP Capital has launched a new website aimed at educating SMSF investors on property and infrastructure investments as part of a new campaign targeting this market....
Henderson has joined with the US pension fund Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association - College Retirement Equities Fund to form a major real estate venture....
It has been six years since limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) were introduced for SMSFs to acquire residential or commercial properties, and so a number of ...
The years of continuing fallout and uncertainty following the global financial crisis are finally resolving into some clear patterns of investor behaviour, according to P...
Australian Ethical said it expects to attract an impairment charge following weakening commercial property markets in Canberra and a green refurbishment of the asset....
Investors are flooding back to property, and as they do they might start asking whether direct or listed is the way to go – or perhaps even both. Freya Purnell writes....
While there are pockets of value across all sectors, getting the best performance depends on choosing the right assets with good locations and occupancy....
According to a new Mortgage Choice survey, low interest rates are driving investors to seek out investment property....
Melbourne-based property investment firm Drapac has launched a new product aimed at giving Australian investors access to what it says is the still undervalued US real es...
Although they haven’t exactly broken out the champagne, life has become a lot easier for fund managers over the past 12 months. Janine Mace examines the implications for ...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...