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Nooo Commission strips trailing fees off home loans

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
New home buyers could save as much as $50,000 in home loan costs under a new product by NSW-based Nooo Commission Group, which yesterday launched a "flat fee" home loan - stripping away upfront commissions and trailing fees typically embedded in traditional ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian newspaper has reported proposals to strip new judges of the non-contributory arrangements paid to current sitting judges. The idea suggested by the Deferral Attorney ...

Govt targets judge's super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... them threatening to slash non-contributory super paid to new judges. The Australian newspaper has reported proposals to strip new judges of the non-contributory arrangements paid to current sitting judges. The idea suggested by the Deferral Attorney ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
A group of investors and asset consultants, sitting on a panel at an InAssociation infrastructure conference in Sydney on Wednesday, was asked to make a call on the future of the investment bank specialist funds model. They agreed it was over. The infrastructure ...

Ord Minnett to invest in finance titans

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
HSBC, JPMorgan Chase and BNP Paribas are just a few of the big names listed in Ord Minnett's newest fund which gives investors exposure to global financial institutions. The new product, called STRIPES - Global Financial Titans, is designed to provide ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open sharply lower after Wall Street fell on US recession concerns. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0730 AEDT, the March share price index contract was down 94 points at 5176. Investors stripped $38.2 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open trading higher this morning, with anticipated impact on the mining sector after BHP Billiton last night announced it had made a STG120 billion ($A272.05 billion) takeover bid for Rio Tinto. If successful ...

Tobacco shares up in smoke

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has stripped its portfolio of $37.6 million worth of tobacco shares after an environmental, social and governance (ESG) review of the fund's investments. The tobacco stocks represented only 0.29 per cent of the fund's ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

Stung UK private equity managers fight back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2007
Stung by mounting criticism in the UK alleging private equity managers are tax dodgers, asset strippers and don't contribute to the economy, the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has thrown off the gloves and come out fighting. BVCA vice chairman ...