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Tyndall to sell Aussie bank loans into Japan

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Tyndall Investment Management has entered into an agreement with an Australian bank to launch a new loan product for the Japanese market. Tyndall managing director Mike Davis was unable to comment on which bank would supply the loans for confidentially ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... - waiting for the Fed's verdict on monetary policy. And they had fun while waiting, for most souls expect the US central bank to continue what it's been since last September - bribing the bears into hibernation by minting fresh greenbacks. It's been ...

HESTA retains J.P. Morgan for custody services

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... sector," he said in a statement. J.P. Morgan investor services boss for Australia and New Zealand Mark Kelley said that the bank's ability to help HESTA manage regulatory change was key to its decision to renew the contract.

Insurers to exit risky fixed income positions: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... inflows into areas such as opportunistic credit, real estate debt (both senior and mezzanine), social housing, high-yielding bank loans and equity dividend strategies. "Insurers may look to growth and higher investment returns in emerging markets in ...

Mixed outlook for Aussie dollar

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... economy is not stronger growth but different growth," said UBS chief economist Haslem who was optimistic that the Reserve Bank had finished easing monetary policy but added that the non-mining sector was still showing little signs of creating jobs in ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... our four broad cap managers had only five positions that were more than 1% from the benchmark. Two of those were offsetting bank positions but we were paying full active fees. This approach was delivering poor value for money to RBF members," he said. ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... be the single biggest issue of 2013. Speaking this morning at Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Sydney, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Australia chief economist Saul Eslake said that how Australia negotiates this "batting change" ...

It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... Emerging miner Atlas Iron was up 1.5 cents at $1.585 after meeting expectations with its second quarter production results. Bank stocks were higher, with Westpac up 18 cents at $27.28, Commonwealth up 35 cents at $63.59, National Australia Bank up 12 ...

Falling interest rates undermine seniors' confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... optimism. Optimism among senior Australians has slumped twice in the last 12 months, on both occasions following Reserve Bank reductions in the cash rate," he explained. The results may come as a surprise given that the Australian share market has climbed ...