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Unitholders approve Challenger mortgage fund restructure

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... has also been made available to all other unitholders. Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund will start evaluating commercial lending proposals with a view to deploying around $200 million in senior secured loans over the next 12 months. "It's a relief that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... whole situation." At 1201 AEDT ANZ was up 70 cents, or 2.91 per cent at $24.74 after the company said it expects corporate lending to increase in the first half of fiscal 2011 on reporting a record $5.133 billion cash profit for fiscal 2010. National ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... re-emerged. And this brings us to the bad news in the global economy. The Peoples Bank of China increased its one-year lending rate by 25 bps to 5.56 per cent and the deposit rise by 25 bps to 2.50 per cent. This is the first rate increase since December ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... be right! US inflation expectations would start rising, American consumers will start spending more, banks will start lending more, businesses will start investing more - in shops, equipment and labour - everything wrong would be righted again! Oh yes ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... out of its stupor. And this means more money. And mo' money is good. Mo' money would create mo' jobs, mo' spending, mo' lending, mo' profits. But what if the Fed comes bearing nothing? This is good too. "I win again." The interpretation would then be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... was 35 points higher at 4,667 points. In economics news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases lending finance data for August, and the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) conducts a tender for $500 million in Treasury ...

Introducing foreclosure-gate, the latest risk to a US recovery

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... economist at UBS in Sydney. "But if US banks have to stop foreclosures, and, sitting on non performing loans, they restrict lending again, it could become an issue," he said.

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... structures continues to be weak. Employers remain reluctant to add to payrolls. Housing starts are at a depressed level. Bank lending has continued to contract, but at a reduced rate in recent months." And the federal funds rate would remain at "exceptionally ...

ANZ to compensate Storm victims

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... take part in the resolution scheme. "The settlement process will investigate the strength of each claim, review ANZ's lending decisions and consider the customer's current financial circumstances," said Slater & Gordon lawyer, Damian Scattini. "This ...

Challenger to open redemptions on mortgage fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... releasing capital back to investors, Adams said the restructure, if approved, will see the fund go back into commercial lending with margins more attractive than before. "Our unitholders will directly benefit from elevated lending spreads as well as ...