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Virgin home loan spices up mortgage lending

... Branson - who wore a pink, terry towelling robe and white cotton slippers for the launch - at a press briefing today. Research house Infochoice also noted that the interest rate difference would add up to savings of over $25,000 for a $250,000 mortgage ...

S&P rates Fidelity property fund cautiously

Fidelity's global property securities fund has been assigned a tentative three star rating from S&P, with the research house questioning the weight of experience in the fund's team outside of the US. "Portfolio manager Steve Buller is experienced in ...

Lonsdale close to 110-planner target, adds risk specialists

... "Within the next two to three years we would have at least 110 firms. We do have [staff] in-house whose specific role is to research and recruit new firms," he added. In 2005 the group added 19 new firms, more recently including The Money Growers, Lifetime ...

Virgin Money on the hunt for new CEO

... while the group hunts for a replacement. Branson initially hired Rohan Gamble as a strategy consultant four years ago to research whether there is an opportunity for a low-cost credit card product in Australia. Gamble's answer at the time was a "resounding ...

Retail gross inflows break $200bn for 2005: Plan For Life

Retail managed fund's annual inflows broke $200 billion last year, showing double digit growth from 2004 and strong rates for the top fund managers. Gross inflows for the year to December were $205 billion, up 12 per cent on the previous year, according ...

Industry super funds trump retail master trusts, again

Research commissioned by Industry Fund Services (IFS) shows that industry super funds continue to outperform retail master trusts. The research, carried out by Rainmaker and SuperRatings, also highlighted that this is the eighth consecutive quarter ...

Perennial launches into local and global property

Perennial Real Estate Investments (PREI) has announced the launch of two property trusts as well as a research partnership with global real estate advisory firm DTZ. The two new trusts, the Perennial Global Property Securities Trust and the Perennial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2006
... profits. But the Standard & Poor's 500 Index edged higher, pulled up by energy companies' shares. On Nasdaq, shares of Research in Motion, the maker of the portable BlackBerry e-mail devices, shot up 6.5 per cent to $74.05. The Dow Jones industrial average ...

Australia leads charge on super assets growth

... superannuation funds over the past five years, according to a Watson Wyatt survey. The asset consulting group's global research also showed that total superannuation fund assets in all the main markets, bar the US and Japan, have doubled during the past ...

Unclaimed super a cash cow for ERFs

... cash cow for the eligible rollover funds (ERFs) that are inheriting them and the trustees transferring the funds. New research by rating agencies, The Heron Partnership and SuperRatings, show ERFs are ripping out fees for the financial institutions who ...