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Reverse mortgages better than starvation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... Ireland, managing director of Mariner Financial Services. Ireland said their weakness is you've got the power of compound interest working against you at the worst time of your life. "If your reverse mortgage is going up at 8 per cent and your house ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... Together these sales figures indicated a consumer population becoming cautious about how it spends its money in the light of interest rate increases and the backdrop of perceptions that he economy may have peaked. Professor Anne Harding of the Melbourne ...

ASIC bans Tweed but can't stop off-market traps

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
David Tweed, the perennial off-market shareholder predator, has been banned by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) from providing financial services. ASIC banned Tweed for his role relating to two offers to acquire holdings from ...

BlackRock expands distribution team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... it does have many Australian institutional clients and its leading expertise in global products, particularly in fixed interest, will result in a wider range and high quality capability to grow in Australia through the newly-merged group, " Frawley s ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... stocks ended flat as positive company results offset negative US and European economic data that put upward pressure on interest rates. The FTSE 100 edged down 0.3 of a point to 6,149.3 points. FRANKFURT - The DAX index declined 68.57 points to 6,223.33 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
... output of other commodities increased or remained steady. The mixed response of the housing industry to increases in interest rates and some slowing in the economy is evident in the just released building approvals data from the ABS which shows that ...

Not on our watch: ASIC

... Westpoint, One.Tel, James Hardie, Offset Alpine Printing and Sons of Gwalia and numerous litigation relating conflicts of interest between advisers and their clients. During the year, ASIC monitored 15 exchanges and financial markets, oversaw 4,415 licensed ...

Perennial to re-think global fixed income strategy

... Legg Mason can now use Citigroup's distribution network for all their local products. "They have a very successful fixed interest business so they might not necessarily need the distribution capabilities that we provided under our relationship with WAM," ...

Russell opens 'best ideas' fund to retail investors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Russell Investment Group has launched a retail version of its 'best ideas' Select Holdings Strategy. The Select Holdings Strategy was launched earlier this year to take the best stock picks from the flagship Russell multi-manager Australian Shares Fund ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... Hang Seng index lost 56.19 points to 18,297.55. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market retained some of Thursday's interest rate driven momentum but performances were mixed, with late rallies in some stocks. The NZX-50 index rose 14.2 points to 37 ...