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Hybrid property funds up 400 per cent

... enthusiasts - a subscription service for access to up-to-date ratings and reports on a property related investment products. "Times are changing and investors today want expert investment information and they want it 'now'...today, the Australian investor ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... lead-up to the launch of the company's new shared equity mortgage. "We spent $4 million on legal fees alone and there were times we thought we were dead in the water," Joye said. "The regulatory system is designed to minimise risks. It pours too much ...

Tyndall slams performance of corp boards

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... Munster, Tyndall's head of equities, said boards needed to be "well equipped to extract value for shareholders" and many times their company valuations were too simplistic. "Tyndall believes that, as a generalisation, there is not enough continuous assessment ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... equity markets went into the close of a see-saw session firmer with concerns about the sub-prime mortgage giving way at times to limited bargain hunting."

Australian M&A activity surges to record high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
... managers are doing more deals overseas than overseas M&A managers are doing in Australia. The value of deals jumping five times the number of deals however confirms reports that deals are now becoming much bigger. Real estate has become a surprise hot ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... slower growth and weakness in the housing market, and averted risk. A buy-up of large-cap stocks, seen as safer bets in times of turmoil, had left stocks in the black for much of the afternoon. Energy stocks, including Exxon Mobil Corp, rose after crude ...

Private equity lending restrained at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... balance sheet, which stands at $110 billion. Hooper said at the time: "There is a lot of due diligence with PE - four or five times the focus of a normal deal. And there is ongoing monitoring." "We are active in private equity, we intend to remain so ...

ACT Govt to announce investment review

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... the ACT future fund for superannuation liabilities, the $2 billion Superannuation Provision Account (SPA). The Canberra Times has reported that Chief Minister Jon Stanhope will announce a formal investment review today. The move comes in response to ...

PE investment in UK boosts job: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... employees," said the BVCA survey report. Companies targeted with private equity investments also reported employment growth nine times higher than other companies. The report also found that contrary to perceptions that private equity investments profit ...

Trade faster than a speeding bullet: INSTINET

The time it takes to execute a trade is about to get 10 times faster and up to 90 per cent cheaper thanks to a new trading system from INSTINET, one of the largest brokers in the electronics market. Called INSTINET Chi-X, the product promises to set ...