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SEQUAL defends advisers on reverse mortgages

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... planners belies the care that financial planners use in recommending a reverse mortgage to an ageing client, and the research dealer groups have undertaken in approving reverse mortgage products." Dell went on to point out that the average loan size ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... the associated numbers. Discussions continue about the restrictions on foreign companies claiming tax deductions for research and development activities carried out in Australia with the federal government looking at the issue especially that of the ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... were from the "Aggregate and individual costs of multiple superannuation accounts" report released this week by the ASFA Research Centre, which challenged many of the findings from a similar CHOICE report. "Basically, we have a common message to that ...

Survey predicts more mortgage defaults

... draws on the opinions of mortgage referrers, a segment of the market not usually consulted on traditional statistical research in property. Michelle Baltazar

PIMCO creates new head of consultant relations role

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... on-going commitment to align our business with the needs of the asset consulting community and to provide sophisticated research capacities to them." Wilson said the current environment would spawn renewed interest in defensive asset classes. "The requirement ...

Share option pay deals for US directors reducing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... began in 1996 that more than half of the companies made these awards. Carol Bowie, vice president of ISS' governance research service, said, "This demonstrates that companies are responding to shareholder concerns regarding board structure, independent ...

Solid stock picks in 2007: Ord Minnett

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... was another which Ord Minnett believed would do well out of the high volumes of super money. Simon Kent-Jones, head of research for Ord Minnett, said, "We believe the weight of superannuation money will help sustain strong profit growth for a number ...

Virgin Super zooms to top quartile

... overall in the balanced category out of 203 individual investment options," said Andrew Keevers, associate director of research, Selecting Super. He said this is a surprising outcome given Virgin Super uses indexing from Macquarie Funds Management to ...

JPMorgan banks on alternative energy returns

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... retail investors with a minimum investment of $10,000. It has received a recommended rating from independent equities research firm Aegis and gives exposure to the DAXglobalA(R) Alternative Energy Index, which has returned gains of over 230 per cent ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... Sydney western suburbs has been quoted as saying that "at least 50 per cent of sellers are distressed". This follows the research and comments made by Professor Bill Mitchell of the University of Newcastle who said last week that despite the nationwide ...