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Bluestone repositions reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2008
... cent in New Zealand. McGuinness said: "Our cost of funds makes it hard to defend the product in the broker channel. The economies are different without alliance partners." The $2 billion reverse mortgage market has hit the wall this year after a couple ...

AUD to fall in second half of 2008: KBC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... The impact on the Australian economy due to Asia's slowdown is because "Australia is closely interwoven with the Asian economies, which account for some 45 per cent of exports". KBC said the indicators of the Australian slowdown are already evident. ...

Pengana rides global resources boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
... manager, said mining equities would continue to benefit from the urbanisation and industrialisation of emerging market economies. Pengana Capital has almost $2 billion in funds under management across 10 funds and strategies including global diversified ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Once regarded as a Bohemian backwater, Slovakia has become one of the most stellar perfoming economies of east-central Europe courtesy of policy reform, foreign investment and robust industrial expansion. The Slovak economy bucked the slowdown experienced ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... - The Nikkei ended down 1.27 per cent at its lowest close in more than a week, as worries about the US and Japanese economies grew, with sagging machinery orders hitting industrial robot maker Fanuc and other machinery makers. The Nikkei shed 166.59 ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... can flourish," he said. Franklin Templeton head of retail in Australia Adam Quaife said "the role of emerging market economies has grown significantly and can provide model portfolios with an additional alpha source." The firm practices a bottom-up stock ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... successful school principals and sports coaches, is now leading the game rather than following and it's no surprise that economies and markets are fast falling back into line. Pointing the way is some strategic commentary in the latest economic analysis ...

ANZ HFA alliance targets Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... HFA Asset Management have joined forces to launch a new capital protected investment fund focused on emerging Asian economies. According to a joint statement, the ANZ Discovery Asia Fund will provide investors with a unique opportunity to diversify from ...

US slowdown won't stop global growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... cent. This will not turn the world into recession, it's still a positive growth story." Dutton said the emerging market economies had surpassed developed economies to become the biggest contributor to global economic growth. "A US slowdown will affect ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... US dollar falls, according to a March 20 IMF Analysis report. Meanwhile the disconnect between emerging and developed economies has analysts concerned that if emerging economies do not need the lead of the developed world as much as they used to then ...