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ANZ HFA alliance targets Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... from traditional investments to absolute return funds with a dedicated focus on Asia. The bank will offer a 100 per cent lending package and capital protection for investors interested in investing in the fund, while HFA will act as the fund's Responsible ...

Brushing up market integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Amidst recent shake-ups in securities lending, director share trading, margin loans and short selling, IFSA and ACSI have joined forces to outline their views on how market transparency and disclosure should be rendered. According to the Investment ...

New CEOs for Skandia, Intech

... staff and more than 60,000 clients during his tenure. Black joins Skandia from St.George Bank where he ran the margin lending and private client businesses. Gethin-Jones, who has over 17 years experience in managing domestic and international equity ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... of course is trying to make the point that banks were so keen to lend money over the last few years that they started lending other people's money to meet credit demand. Trouble is those other people are now charging the banks higher interest rates and ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... whether it leads to a return to greater regulation. The re-regulation calls are because after all the carnage caused by lending-without-restrictions it is again left to the traditional banking sector and central banks to clean up the system and restore ...

St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
St George Group has appointed David Curry to general manager of margin lending. Curry was previously St George head of payment solutions and held positions at Westpac, Rothchilds Australia Asset Management and Ernst & Young before joining the bank three ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... share market is expected to open sharply higher as Wall Street surged after The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) cut its main lending rate by three-quarters of a percentage point to 2.25 per cent. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... 18 months, led by financial stocks, on signs of a deepening in the global credit crisis. The US Federal Reserve cut its lending rate to financial institutions on Sunday to increase the cash available to the banking system, and JPMorgan Chase said it ...

Bluestone cuts back hard

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Bluestone Group is the latest lender to make big cuts in its lending program in the face of increasingly risk-averse global debt markets. Bluestone, a specialist supplier of non-conforming loans, told staff and business partners yesterday that it would ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... economy shows signs of slowing had helped the market gain today. "The bond rate is also supportive of the banks and their lending operations," Mr Smith said. But Mr Smith said today's gains were unlikely to last. "I would be sceptical. We've had all ...