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ME Bank profit surges but needs to lend more

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2006
Members Equity Bank reported a significant increase in after tax profit in 2005, but its profitability and return on equity will continue to suffer unless it can grow its personal loans and credit card book faster. Net profit after tax of $1.71 million ...

Alternative investing steadily going mainstream: JANA

Leading asset consultant JANA Investment Advisers told a press conference this week that 'alternative thinking' and 'alternative investments' are fast becoming an essential part of mainstream investing. "Increasingly, alternative investments are not ...

Asgard puts cash first with eCASH and Cash Connect

... Previously, these products were only available through Asgard's eWrap. "Not only are we the only platform to offer a linked high yield online cash product and a fully transactional bank account to investors, the products will also have some great features ...

Property groups and advisers get set for scrutiny

High yield fixed interest products and the advisers selling them will come under ASIC's microscope following the widely reported Westpoint debacle, said ASIC's two chief orchestrators. ASIC deputy chair, Jeremy Cooper, said the mezzanine finance property ...

Mixing up your yield and growth: OptiMix

... investment landscape changes this year. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer of OptiMix, is referring to the mix of yield and growth in existing investment portfolios. "It's about saying look, you've had a lot of good growth, think about the ...

S&P gives local LIC thumbs down

... fact that, like GMF, LIC global investment vehicles can be costly for investors as they do not actively manage or "hunt yield". "They are supposed to be more actively managed but, with this one, it is invested in just one growth stock."

JBWere launches Aussie infrastructure fund

... equities and it's not correlated with property." He added, "We think it can offer relatively low volatility with strong yield." GSJBW's senior investment manager of infrastructure, utilities and resources, Geoff Frankish, will manage the fund, which ...

2006 market conditions will suit value investing: Tyndall

Tyndall, Standard and Poor's 2005 fund manager of the year, is warning that bonds would give few returns and equities may remain "overpriced" and these conditions will suit value managers. Bob Van Muster, head of equities, said as value managers Tyndall ...

City slickers to face higher bankruptcy rates: ITSA

The latest statistics from Insolvency and Trustee Services Australia (ITSA) paint a dire picture of the incidence of bankruptcies in the eastern states, brought on by rising petrol and household living costs. According to ITSA, bankcruptcies in the ...

Pre-Christmas sale earns Absolute Capital NZ$30m

... "essentially a retail product." "It's just another sign of a definite need with institutions for alternative sources of yield." Joubert also touts their performance fee on maturity structure as a hook that differentiates PINs from other CDO type products. ...