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PIS campaign to reflect change

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... PIS is not just a financial planning group but also offers risk management, insurance, accounting, superannuation and mortgage lending services over the past decade. He thinks the campaign will help them appeal to the younger staff. "We wanted something ...

Mortgage funds' phantom lifeline

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Rudd government's plan to shore up confidence in mortgage funds is a political master stroke because while it sounds terrific, it commits the government to nothing, will take months to have any impact and won't put dollars on the tables of retirees ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
Colonial First State, ING and APN Funds Management have joined the ranks of the country's leading mortgage funds that have suspended redemptions in the wake of the Government's guarantee on banking deposits, locking up more than $6 billion of investor ...

I'll have what she's having

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... Treasury's imprimatur. Sounds like the fiasco the Rudd government created with its bank guarantee and its after-effect on mortgage funds doesn't it? It does not stop there. Other institutions are also asking to have what the banks are having. On 24 October ...

Mortgage trusts face crisis of confidence

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
The fate of the country's $23 billion mortgage trust sector is in the hands of the more than 150,000 investors who now have to decide whether to stay put or bail out before more mortgage trusts freeze redemptions. The federal government's bank deposit ...

Brokers consider their options

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
A CoreData report found roughly 2,000 mortgage brokers believe they will change broking groups in the next year as big banks cut commissions and continue to squeeze them out of the industry. The study of 700 Australian mortgage brokers revealed two ...

Challenger squeezes redemptions

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Challenger has tightened the redemption policies of its Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund and other mortgage products following significant increases in fund outflows. Challenger's investors have been retrieving their investments following the Federal ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... pensioners and first homebuyers and guaranteeing bank deposits. In addition, the country's biggest banks are lowering their mortgage rates. The Australian dollar's sharp depreciation over the past few months would also help cushion the domestic economy ...

The end is nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... provide deposit insurance for investors; purchase of toxic assets; offer insurance and ensure that credit is available to mortgage holders. A separate meeting by European leaders promised to temporarily guarantee bank refinancing and a host of other ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... that things are not as clear-cut as they may seem. Higgins, an associate director of PIR, said that retail investors and mortgage holders are holding tight to their existing mortgage arrangements and properties as they wait for further cuts and greater ...