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Private equity cash cow keeps growing

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... scrapping of the high capital gains tax regime on offshore corporations. "Cash is everywhere at the moment. Three and a half times the cash rate was good three years ago - today you will get six times that cash rate." Opportunities and areas that would ...

Design menus to encourage proper choices: MLC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... consumers therefore tend to make choices that are very aggressive. "The pain of losing $100 is thought to be two and half times greater than the joy of winning $100," said Abley when presenting the paper to the Colloquium. However to compensate for the ...

Accountants embrace SMSF automation: SuperCentral

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
... been eight major changes to superannuation legislation, which means that SMSF trustees have had to update their deeds eight times to benefit from them and remain compliant. For an accountant managing the process, each change triggered a tedious exercise ...

Emerging markets more attractive than ever: Templeton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
... Management said the recent cooling represents the industry taking "a much needed breather" after a strong run in recent times. Fundamentals and valuations remain attractive and recent volatility presents buying opportunities, according to managing director ...

Lo-doc lending headaches

... defaults and repossessions. "Our index reveals that lo-doc 30+ day arrears have doubled in the past 18 months and are three times those of the market as a whole," said Andrew Berg, Fitch Ratings' head of Australian RMBS Surveillance. Deloitte highlighted ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

... members and $48.75 billion in FUA. Even the twentieth largest provider, Fiducian, boasted $930 million FUA, at least eight times more than that of Credit Suisse's comparable product. Following the announcement, the investment MasterWrap will be terminated ...

Small caps can keep on delivering: Pengana

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2006
... sectors but I don't think there's anything to really be concerned about at the wholesale level." Prendergast sees the good times continuing for his small caps fund so long as conditions remain as they are, particularly for operators in the financial ...

Value of advice shines at Tupicoffs

... [financial advice]. "In fact we've had to raise our annual retainer fee from $1,100 to $3,300 last year, so it's now three times harder for [lower income] individuals to get professional financial advice." Given he has improved his client's financial ...

LinQ Resources trebles distribution yield

... the shares are up again and the group has proposed a distribution of 7Ac per unit for the year to 30 June, more than three times the 2Ac distribution previously. LinQ Resources' managing director, Clive Donner, said in an ASX statement, "We are pleased ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
... (ABS) latest Labour Force report, released today, showed that the number of employed persons increased by more than four times financial market expectations, rising by 56,000 in May - the biggest increase in more than two years -- against expectations ...