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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... base metal prices. At 0808 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index was up 56 points to 6280. ABS lending finance data for April will be released today. The National Australia Bank monthly business survey for May is also due. Australian ...

Vanguard takes top honours at Rainmaker Marketing Awards

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... Business Tyndall Investment Management Best Innovation of the Year Macquarie Investment Multiplier Macquarie Investment Lending Best New Investment Product of the Year Jana Australian Share Long short trust Jana Best New Superannuation Product of the ...

Boomers can be choosers

... better with their lifestyle. "There's a whole swag of strategies they can use; reverse mortgages, equity release, margin lending and so on...they don't have to pay the family home because they don't need to. That's not tax efficient," he said. Similarly ...

SMSF property lending of high Calliva

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Calliva yesterday announced the launch of a new property lending product called SuperAccess, targeting self-managed super funds (SMSF) by allowing trustees to borrow up to 70 per cent of a property's value. Explaining the product, Calliva chief executive ...

Economic round- up: Cutting the apron strings

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... believes that valuations are now at unsustainable extremes. Given slowing housing growth and increased competition on lending spreads, earnings risk is becoming an issue. The Economist recently likened Asia's banks (and to Americans that includes us ...

Grange announces new chairman and directors

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
... independent director replacing Kerry Daly. Beaumont worked for Macquarie Bank for 24 years in corporate finance and corporate lending before being appointed to the bank's executive committee in 1983. He also currently serves on the board of a number ...

Economic round-up: Yearning for a yuan inspired Asian euro

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... exchange reserves and inflation. China's central bank last week allowed its currency to trade at a wider range, curbed bank lending and raised interest rates in a further attempt to rein-in their bolting economy. However, it seems doubtful these changes ...

Economic round-up: Beijing tugging the reins

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... almost as many months and tightened access to credit, in a renewed effort to dampen its blistering economy. The one-year lending rate was raised by 18 basis points to 6.57 per cent while the one-year deposit rate was increased by 27 basis points to 3.06 ...

Microfinance bonds attract major instos

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... capital each year in the immediate future, with A$375 million to A$500 million in additional equity required to support such lending. "But even these estimates could be too low if expansion continues at the exponential rates seen recently in larger M ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... share price index contract was down 36 points to 6,331, on a volume of 1,212 contracts. Today, the ABS will release March lending finance data while Treasury secretary Ken Henry speaks at Australian Business Economists post-budget lunch. In share market ...