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Cut PDS to less than 20 pages: study

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... results revealed investors preferred a shorter, 15-20 page PDS which included a simple contents page, corporate statement, company contact details and a key features summary. Most importantly, participants identified a well documented simple fee structure ...

Centro rescue till Dec

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... December this year. The group first ran into trouble December last year after global credit markets hit a downturn and the company, which was hot on the expansion trail, experienced difficulty in refinancing expiring debt. Centro's facilities currently ...

Bear market poses threat to mining

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... course there's going to be risks," he said. Lincoln uses a quantitative method of determining the financial health of a company by taking into account key accounting ratios and a company's overall exposure to financial risk. Financial health represents ...

Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... and through its partnership arrangements with a number of credit unions. ASF managing director, John Thomas, said the company was pulling back but not getting out of the market. He said he hoped the measures affecting broker sales would be temporary. ...

Austock Life strikes $100m

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... milestone is Austock Life's Imputation Bonds, a full-featured masterfund that uses an insurance bond tax structure, the company said. Imputation Bonds are often used for accumulating tax-paid lump sums for life-event financial planning objectives, ranging ...

Ironbridge to buy Bravura

... proposal from private equity firm Ironbridge Capital which values the group at more than $270 million. Under the proposal, a company to be owned by funds advised by Ironbridge and senior management of Bravura, would acquire 100 per cent of the issued ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... Shares in Macarthur rose on Friday on the back of market speculation that Xstrata Coal Qld Pty Ltd could make a bid for the company. CMC Markets senior dealer Dominic Vaughn said the higher oil prices over the weekend - which climbed more than $US3 a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... to the energy rally were higher-than-expected profit from Marathon Oil Corp and Chevron Corp, the second-largest US oil company. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 48.20 points, or 0.37 per cent, at 13,058.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was ...

Pentafin recruits ex-Macq head

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... Managers. According to Connie McKeage, chief executive of Pentain, Karrasch approached Pentafin after he heard about the company's merger with Direct Portfolio. "The managed accounts is a growing market, and when you get into a burgeoning market and ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... consumer warnings from regulators and financial literacy advocates. The failure of the Geelong-based Chartwell share trading company where investors have given interviews describing how they expected regular returns of 70 per cent annually just illustrates ...