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ASIC new guidance for AFSL

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
Holders of an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) now face updated guidance including guides on margin lending facilities, simple managed investment schemes and certain superannuation products. Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Count enters asset finance market

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... Andrew Gale, chief executive, Count. Centrepoint Finance is one of Australia's largest asset finance brokers and has 14 lending institutions on its panel and access to wholesale funding facilities.

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011
... higher at $45.56 cents. Among the major banks, Westpac was 32 cents higher at $23.35 after it said the quality of its lending assets was improving as Australia's second biggest lender had a solid start to the year with good margins. National Australia ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... had doubled its growth over the last twelve months. "Our most active investments at this time is our mezzanine property lending business, which is one of the most active mezzanine property ventures operating today," said Meltzer. Wingate's mezzanine ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... (financial markets) Guy Debelle, speaks at the Australian DCM Summit. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases lending finance data for January and new motor vehicles sales for February. Overnight, the US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee ...

Advisers must justify complex products: ASIC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... well as quarterly reports on portfolio valuation transactions during the relevant period. ASIC will also monitor margin lending to invest in MDA services, which must be appropriate for the client. In October 2010, ASIC issued a statement warning consumers ...

Retail bank deposits hit $62bn in Dec qtr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... the impact on mortgage rates is less discernible. But the lift in savings levels is having economic impacts with reduced lending activity and continuing falls in retail sales. The Dun and Bradstreet survey of business sales expectations is now at its ...

J.P. Morgan wins $1.5bn custody mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... merged fund's custody and administration process, including in providing tax propagation, currency overlay and securities lending services. It has been a busy six months for J.P. Morgan TSS globally. In October last year, it expanded its Asia Pacific ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... closed lower as a negative tone for the new trading week was set by the Chinese government further cracking down on bank lending, and continuing Middle East tensions. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 36.7 points, or 0.74 per cent, to 4,900 points ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Australia publishes the minutes of its February 1 monetary policy meeting, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics issues lending finance data for December. In equities news, Westpac Banking Corporation releases its first quarter trading update. In earnings ...