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Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
Bluestone Group will stop distributing reverse mortgages through brokers and financial planners and will focus its activities on distribution through alliance partners. Bluestone chief executive Peter McGuinness said the group had alliances with Westpac ...

Austock Life strikes $100m

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
Austock's specialist issuer of tax-paid investments, Austock Life, has reached the $100 million pit stop in its total funds under management. Underlying the $100 million milestone is Austock Life's Imputation Bonds, a full-featured masterfund that uses ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... index being balanced by resources being bought and the banks being sold," Mr Smith said. "I went into today expecting a pit stop of some sort particularly with the Reserve Bank to talk to us this afternoon. "That's sort of been helped on the downside ...

FinLit boosts productivity while educating kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... intended to help. Fitzpatrick said we also have to be careful not to over-burden teachers who are increasingly being seen as the stop-gap for everything that is wrong with society. Illustrating the point, in just the last week proposals have appeared ...

Adviser Edge seals another deal with van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
Retail investments researcher van Eyk will stop using the services of product researcher Aegis in favour of an extended relationship with Adviser Edge. The group said it ended its relationship with Aegis amicably, preferring instead to use one research ...

Short selling shouldn't be sold short

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
The overreaction against short selling and securities lending need to calm down, said Greenwich Alternative Investments. "Short selling provides liquidity and allows you to make calls in both directions," said Ryan Pearson, Greenwich senior vice president ...

First stop baby boomers, next stop Gen-Y

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
The way to the baby boomers' wallets is through their Gen-Y kids, said Bernard Salt, a leading commentator on consumer, cultural and demographic trends. "Generation Y will inherit baby boomer wealth. The motherload is not going to happen for another ...

AMP Capital Core Infrastructure hits $100m

The market may have taken a beating but that hasn't stopped investors from opening their wallets to AMP's infrastructure fund, which drew more than $100 million of inflows in less than six months. On the surface, it's easy to presume AMP Capital Core ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... higher to 3.42 per cent - a yield not seen since the disinflation scare of 2003. But not even the Fed's new TSFL program could stop broad market trading liquidity declining with Citi's US Rate Liquidity Index more than 50 per cent higher (worse) than ...

ATO warns on super loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... guarantees. These lenders have legal opinions saying the SIS Act regulates funds, not individuals, and there is nothing to stop members giving personal guarantees. The ATO said a regulatory issue would arise if the personal guarantee resulted in recourse ...