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Signs of a residential property recovery

JOHN KAVANAGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... availability of grants. At the same time the low rates and rising rents are a buy signal for investors. The 2009 edition of Mortgage insurer Genworth Financial's Mortgage Trends Report, released late in July, confirms that investors are back in the market. ...

Yellow Brick Road drops acquisition strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Yellow Brick Road, the financial planning business developed by Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris, has dumped its acquisition strategy for an organic growth branch model - with the aim to open 150 practices in three years. Bouris said the business' ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor of financial markets, Guy Debelle, takes part in a panel discussion at a Mortgage Finance Industry Association function. In company news, BHP Billiton Ltd issues second quarter production report and Woolworths ...

Macq trust sells US property

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... fifths of the trust's assets in the country. The deal, when closed, will remove $1.3 billion of US domiciled commercial mortgage backed security (CMBS) debt which is scheduled to mature in the coming years and will release more than $220 million of gross ...

Local funds won't follow CalPERS lawsuit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
One of the US' biggest pension funds, the $223 billion CalPERS, has filed a lawsuit against three of the world's most powerful rating agencies to claw back some of its losses from the GFC, but local super funds look unlikely to follow suit. CalPERS ...

UniSuper activates fair value clause

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... members get a correct payout value despite volatile markets. LGS's move was triggered by plunging asset prices and the mortgage funds redemptions freeze.

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
First Aussie John announced he would "shake up" the insurance market, now Mortgage Choice is boosting its presence in life insurance too. Independently-owned mortgage house Mortgage Choice announced the partnership with Lifebroker, which claims to be ...

Can't swing it both ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... national governments and central banks to curtail their spending because ballooning sovereign debts and deficits would mortgage the future of our children and our children's children. Heck, Standard & Poor's even made the headlines when it warned that ...

City Pacific still in RE bind

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... Corporations Act requiring the regulator to register Trilogy as the new responsible entity of the City Pacific First Mortgage Fund. Before the unitholders meeting last Thursday (June 25), City Pacific applied to the Federal Court for an injunction to ...

Not a happy EOFYS on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
... done by Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza and Luigi Zingales. The authors surveyed 1,000 homeowners and found that one in four mortgage defaults are 'strategic' -- people who are able to meet repayments but decide to default instead. Unethical and immoral ...