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Aussie equities get clean bill of health

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
With the dust settled on reporting season, Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of Australian equities Dion Hershan said that Australian equities look selectively attractive. Hershan said that while the last reporting season pointed to healthy balance ...

Darby buys into Mexican housing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... the Mexican economy. Over the last few years, macroeconomic stability and financial innovations have allowed for better mortgage credit products and financial intermediaries' funding techniques, resulting in higher availability of resources financing ...

AUI increases redemption levels for mortgage fund

MEDIA RELEASES  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
Australian Unity Investments has increased the regular monthly withdrawal facility of the AUI Mortgage Income Trust, offering 3 per cent of the trust for withdrawals each month. The increase is effective from 25 August 2010 and investors can set up ...

Cards for houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
... crisis could be helping to improve the timeliness of credit card payments and lower balances. When people don't make mortgage payments, they have a short-term cash boost... That can provide extra money to pay down credit cards." Now we'll just have to ...

Morgan Stanley offers way out for Pacific investors

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Pacific First Mortgage Fund unit holders will have the choice to exit the fund after a Morgan Stanley-sponsored real estate vehicle offered to buy up to 49 per cent of the units. Project Junior Pte Ltd (PJPL), a company owned by Morgan Stanley Real ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... - or both -- as the only options. The Fed is reportedly planning more quant easing - buying government bonds to bring mortgage rates down even lower. And according to Bloomberg, "the Obama administration will offer $1 billion in zero-interest loans to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... also from Seven Group Holdings Ltd, MAp Group, Regional Express Holdings Ltd, Suncorp-Metway Ltd, ING Industrial Fund, Mortgage Choice Ltd, Asciano Group, Transpacific Industries Group Ltd, Skilled Group Ltd, APA Group, Hastie Group Ltd, Devine Ltd ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... an owner-occupier in Australia, your interest payments aren't tax deductible. So what that means is, if you've got a mortgage rate of 7 per cent and you've got a marginal income tax rate... of 50 per cent, you have to find a pre-tax, risk free rate of ...

No super profits tax for banks: Coalition

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... consumers," Hockey said at an Association of Financial Advisers doorstop interview yesterday. Credit card customers and mortgage holders in particular will bear the brunt of the tax. Instead, he claims the government should do what the Coalition government ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... disturbing for the market," Mr McCarthy said. "Although it is being painted as an ongoing stimulus, taking money from maturing mortgage securities and putting it into treasuries is actually withdrawing money from the private system. "The market has become ...