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AUI appoints general manager retail

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
Australian Unity Investments has appointed an ex-Colonial First State executive to fill the vacant position of general manager retail. Adam Coughlan has joined Australian Unity Investments to fill the role left vacant by the passing away of Alan Miller ...

HFA promotes new investment manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
HFA Asset Management has appointed a new senior investment manager. Financial analyst Darren Katz steps up to the new role to replace Peter Coates, who is on secondment in London. Katz assumes responsibility for managing HFA's absolute return and hedge ...

Mortgage brokers bounce back in latest mystery shop

Mortgage and Finance brokers have beaten stereotypes to come up well in a survey of 104 members by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, contrasting sharply with a recent CHOICE magazine report criticising the integrity of brokers selling ...

Govt leads VC investment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The maturing private equity market focusing more on middle and advanced stage investments is causing such a drain on early stage venture capital (VC) investment that the government has been compelled to become a major VC sponsor. The AusIndustry sponsored ...

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Shared equity lenders are preparing for a turf war with reverse mortgage lenders for the retiree equity release market. The first non-government shared equity loan, Rismark's equity finance mortgage, is being marketed at this stage to first home buyers ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
Following the upheaval caused by the Shanghai stockmarket last week the Chinese government has downgraded its forecast growth for the coming year from 10.75 per cent to 8 per cent. For the last year the government has been cognisant of the need to ensure ...

Japan set to jump on global PE train

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
A study conducted by Adveq, the Swiss private equity fund of funds manager, has found that Japanese institutional investors are set to follow Australian investors and institutions the world over in increasing their private equity allocations. The study ...

AXA launches online insurance tool

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
AXA Australia has launched an online tool to help advisers keep track of their clients' insurance applications. The new Application Status Report provides real time information on the progress of AXA insurance applications. "The best analogy for the ...

Vision Super eyes shopping sprees in China

Vision Super plans to cash in on China's economic growth by awarding a $38.5 million property mandate to the Macquarie Wanda Real Estate Fund, an investment vehicle focusing on Chinese shopping centres. "The opportunities in Australia's direct property ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Non-forestry agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) are set to have their taxation position drastically altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the ...