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Aussie super funds lead pension growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Australia's retirement funds including State Super, Australian Super, UniSuper and the Future Fund are some of the fastest growing in the world, rising at an average compound annual growth rate of 17 per cent. The Pensions & Investments/Watson Wyatt ...

Econocrats pour cold water on mortgage agency

... Economist Joshua Gans and Rismark chief executive Christopher Joye have developed a similar proposal, which has been labelled Aussie Mac. This is a truncated version of an article that appeared in today's www.thesheet.com banking industry newsletter. ...

Life insurance made easy: AIG

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... Life's Priority Protection policy holders looking to upgrade to a more "realistic" level of cover. "While the traditional Aussie attitude is 'it won't happen to me', people should be aware that AIG Life expects to pay out more than $100 million in claims ...

Alternatives: shock absorbers of sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... years ago, Australian retail investors lagged behind their Western counterparts in the alternative investment race. Today Aussie investors, particularly those from the retail sector, hold the gold medal in pushing the boundaries of alternative investing. ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has come a long way since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country ...

See-through IMAs buffer market sting

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... (IMAs). DNR, one of the largest independent provider of IMAs nationally, has produced returns of 18 per cent for its flagship Aussie equities portfolio against the benchmark ASX 200's 16 per cent in the last three years. Over a one-year period however ...

Life settlements open to Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
Life settlements might seem like an unconventional asset class - but an Australian fund manager claims the sector poses a fresh set of opportunities for local insto investors. Investing in life settlements, particularly in the US, involves buying out ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... grant. The most useful recommendations from the report are that Treasury investigate whether Australia should consider an "Aussie Mac" type home loan scheme (based upon US style programs), that the public housing stock increase to 10 per cent of total ...

Super funds to resurrect ailing RMBS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
Investor interest in Australian residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) has dropped from $45 billion last year to virtually zero early this year - but a model overhaul and cash injection from super funds could pull the sector out of the doldrums. ...

Macquarie shuts down US mortgage operation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... to its 95,000 local mortgage borrowers and will continue to fund new loans for its most important wholesale partners - Aussie Home Loans and Virgin Money. The bank's securitisation funding vehicle, Puma, will continue to manage existing securitised loan ...