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Taxes and housing dominate election race

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2025
... access to credit and home ownership, supporting the stability of the financial system, and underpinning competition in the lending market. ICA chief executive Andrew Hall said Labor's plan would effectively "nationalise" LMI. "By subsidising all first ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... create meaningful employment for their families and local people," McMullin said. Good Return's remit, however, goes beyond lending, it said. Grant funding deployed alongside the fund is used to train financial institution employees to address gender ...

CEFC funds sustainable real estate credit projects

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... projects. The CEFC and RECP IV will co-invest in construction debt facilities to lift sustainability standards. Primarily lending to residential and commercial office projects, the projects selected will measure and demonstrate cost-effective pathways ...

Aussie instos on the hunt for niche opportunities

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2025
... investors agreed they were increasingly expanding their private credit allocations into new niche opportunities such as NAV lending, esoteric asset-backed securities - such as music royalties, diamond receivables, litigation finance, airplane leasing ...

Younger women embrace geared strategies: Data

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... making up 12% (up from 7%) and retirees (65+) accounting for 8% (up from 6%). However, despite the growth, the margin lending usage has dipped 2% to 48%, Investment Trends said the drop is due to more focus on home loan redraw facilities, and 28% of ...

Metrics acquires BC Investment Group

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... Credit Partners, previously held a 29.8% stake in BCI. BCI is a non-bank financial services group specialising in consumer lending for residential real estate purposes. As at January 31, BCI has total loans under management of more than $6.5 billion ...

HESTA hunts for portfolio construction and risk specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... at the Bank of Scotland and ANZ although with the latter he also looked after credit risk management on the specialist lending side. He earlier worked in senior market and credit risk roles at HBOS and Lloyds. The general manager of portfolio construction ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... reasons why the sector may need its intervention. ASIC defines private markets as "private capital funds, non-bank financial lending and investments made by institutional investors directly into asset classes such as private companies, infrastructure ...

Payton Capital welcomes head of credit

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... strategies with Payton Capital's broader business objectives to ensure the business maintains a strong and disciplined lending approach. Golinelli brings significant experience across banking and finance, having worked both domestically and internationally ...

Convicted adviser fails to appeal prison sentence

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to his own businesses between February and March 2015. The companies included Thrive Lending, Trade BTC, and Beta Pharmacology, and Grimm was the sole director for all businesses. Additionally, he dishonestly ...