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Vow to take on financial planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Mortgage aggregator Vow Financial is looking to ward off competition from banks by offering financial planning services to retail property investors. Vow Wealth Management has been launched as a joint venture with financial planning firm, The Selector ...

Fund reaps reward in shopping centre debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
Industry fund UniSuper has dipped into the debt markets, earmarking $250 million for Australian commercial mortgage backed securities. The deal is subject to ratings agency confirmation of the AAA rating on the note. The universities-based superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... Nasdaq composite lost 1.30, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,760.22. Bank of America, the country's biggest bank and one of largest mortgage underwriters, reports earnings Friday morning. Stock indices were lower for most of the day after claims for unemployment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... Nasdaq Composite ahead of other gauges, while JPMorgan Chase's solid earnings report was overshadowed by worries about its mortgage assets portfolio. Meanwhile, other banks were hit by a Fed call for banks to tighten up their mortgage procedures and ...

La Trobe buys super specialists IE Group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
National mortgage lender and funds management firm La Trobe Financial Services has bought third party financial services firm, Implementation Efficiency Group (IEG). Greg O'Neill, chief executive of Melbourne-based La Trobe, said the purchase had been ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Fund managers hoping for a US GDP growth rate of 3 per cent or better are likely to be disappointed if Harvard academic Martin Feldstein is correct. Dr Feldstein recently told the Australian Centre for Financial Studies that the US was unlikely to achieve ...

Bank reaches for industry fund members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... including AustralianSuper and HESTA, giving it access to a database of millions of members. But it currently has just 123,000 mortgage customers, or less than 5 per cent of its potential market base. Ian Hendey, group executive of brand, products and ...

Macq coins onto mortgage agenda

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Three out of four financial planning practices offer mortgage broking or referral services to their clients on their agenda, leading Macquarie to launch a mortgage module for COIN Office. The new module provides tools that will assist advisers to meet ...

Asgard upgrades insurance for FOFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... which will help advisers in their risk-related business. APPP now provides online application and tracking tools and a Mortgage Acceptance Cover feature. "We're particularly excited about providing Mortgage Acceptance Cover, which covers the borrower ...

Count enters asset finance market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
Count Financial's 350-firm network can now offer expanded asset finance services to small business clients after forming an alliance with Centrepoint Finance. Starting from 3 April, Count members will have access a higher number of asset finance lenders ...