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Australians all let us rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
"Eat my shorts!" (Bart Simpson). Those who continue to hold a dim view of the Australian economy are fast dwindling. More have fallen by the wayside yesterday after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released another "beautiful set of numbers." ...

CFS halts mortgage fund redemptions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Colonial First State (CFS) has told investors in the $850 million Mortgage Income fund the window to access redemptions has closed after it found a small number of mortgages within the portfolio could become bad debts. A CFS spokesperson said the firm ...

Bookmakers Super boosts liquidity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
Bookmakers Super Fund has improved the liquidity of its balanced investment strategies, increasing the cash levels of its Balanced Pension by more than $10 million to $12 million. The fund's December update said "pleasing progress" had been made to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2009
... Eircom Holdings Ltd is among a number of companies holding annual general meetings, while Deloitte releases the Australian Mortgage Report: 2010 Positioning for Opportunity. Apollo Gas Ltd lists on the Australian Securities Exchange at 1100 AEDT. In ...

Sandhurst wins RE mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... Yield Fund (previously known as the AAA Saver) was launched 13 May 2005. The fund invests predominantly in residential mortgage-backed securities, selected asset-backed securities and appropriately rated liquid assets.

Future Fund targets credit assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... quality entities that needed capital and were prepared to provide very high spreads so we invested in local residential mortgage backed securities, the big four banks and high quality global banks," he said. "We found we could get very attractive returns ...

Dummy spit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... economists to the contrary. And in your efforts to keep filling the punch bowl, you cranked up the printing press to buy mortgage securities, Treasury securities, commercial paper, and other assets from Wall Street. Those purchases, by the way, led to ...

Governments could cause next GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
The developed world's governments could be the perpetrator of the next GFC as unchecked debt and overspending take their toll, warns an expert. Martin Barnes, an investment veteran and managing editor of Bank Credit Analyst Research, told an IMCA conference ...

Matrix tags NBG for mortgages

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
Matrix Planning Solutions has secured a preferential mortgage aggregation arrangement with National Brokers Group (NBG). The partnership supports Matrix advisers with mortgage businesses by giving them access to NBG's lending rates as well as a preferential ...

Thanks for now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... year's double-digit worth of supply. American homebuyers have the Fed and Uncle Sam to thank for this. Fed purchases of mortgage-backed securities have lowered home mortgage rates while Uncle Sam's homeowners' tax credit grant. Of course, they should ...