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Money for Living practice is not RM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
The Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) is distancing itself from Money for Living, stating the business was not involved in promoting and selling reverse mortgages. On Monday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

Managed accounts hold trumpcard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
As investors get jittery about their portfolios after Opes Prime and Lift Capital's collapse, the inherent feature of investors retaining beneficial ownership of their shares has become a key selling point for separately managed accounts (SMAs), industry ...

Soft commodity a hard buy

The demand for commodity-based infrastructure assets has outpaced the available supply, making it difficult for agricultural-based and commodity-based funds to find enough assets. Craig Swanger, Macquarie Group head of alternative investments said Macquarie ...

Credit Suisse expands private banking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
Credit Suisse has purchased corporate advisory firm, Hindal, enabling the development of its strategy to provide investment banking, private banking and asset management services to high net worth clients and Australian businesses. Established in 1996 ...

AMP launches SMA platform

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
AMP has launched a separately managed account (SMA) platform, developed specifically for Hillross Financial Services clients, in a bid to better manage the direct equities portion of their clients' portfolios. The new Personalised Portfolio service ...

Bravura becomes a prime buy target

Caught up in the troubles of margin lender Lift Capital, homegrown financial software group Bravura has become an even juicier takeover target for IT companies, private equity and even fund managers, with Archer Capital, GBST, DSTi and Perpetual named ...

Govt to cut 'lost super' red tape

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Federal minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, has announced plans to reduce the hassle behind finding lost super accounts by rationalising the register. Sherry said lost super accounts represented roughly one in five of all superannuation ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
Australian residential property is overvalued and primed for a price correction, according the International Monetary Fund (IMF), meanwhile housing supply is in such demand that rents are projected to jump 50 per cent. The rental price jump predicted ...

Boutique structures test volatile times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Boutique funds are more vulnerable to volatile markets than their big brand counterparts, prompting investors to take into account the managers' ownership structure to protect their portfolios, said Australian Unity Investments. "Investors need to be ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
After months of share market swings, interest rate rises and petrol price jumps, news that house prices might climb 40 per cent over the next five years didn't quite get the reception you would have expected. Instead it just showed how bad the outlook ...