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Asset finance companies lose lending share

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Finance companies are losing market share in their biggest market segment, business lending, as the banks make an aggressive push for more SME and middle market business. According to KPMG's 2006/07 survey of finance companies, released yesterday, finance ...

Directors face prison term for lack of disclosure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Two Australian-listed company directors have been slapped with three-year jail terms for using offshore accounts to illegally hide their shareholdings in the business. The prison terms were handed to Stuart Corp and Brian Smith, directors of Corp and ...

Challenger FP model pays dividends

Eight months after a business restructure, Challenger Financial Planning chief executive Greg Kirk said the group's new business model has worked wonders. Only a couple of years ago Challenger's financial planning business was trailing behind its rivals. ...

AFS tailors record profits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2007
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has announced they will end the year breaking all previous records. The results, as measured by the group's key performance indicators (KPIs), saw a 103 per cent increase in income, 49 per cent rise in profitability ...

Australians at ease with debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
With Australians using debt to acquire homes and build wealth, a report from the Federal Government found almost 80 per cent of borrowers are comfortable with their debt levels. Volatile equity markets, inflationary pressures and ongoing credit fears ...

Investors eye emerging markets infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Credit Suisse is tapping into the growing demand for global alternative assets when it launched a product that will give Australian investors faster and cheaper access to the $1.12 trillion emerging markets infrastructure sector. Subject to regulatory ...

Microcap a winning formula at Cygnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
A fund manager who returned 73 per cent p.a. after fees for his clients last year is to manage a new fund that focuses on microcap stocks. Jonathan Rosham, co-founder of microcap specialist Cygnet Capital, will run Cygnet Microcap opportunity fund using ...

Calliva gives SMSFs direct property route

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
Boutique financial services group Calliva has taken advantage of recent changes in borrowing legislation for self managed super funds (SMSF) to offer direct commercial property investments via loans. Calliva's SuperAccess allows a super fund to finance ...

S&P upgrades Global Value Fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has upgraded boutique manager Global Value Investors' (GVI) GVI Global Industrial Share Fund to three stars. GVI, a joint venture between Investors Mutual and Treasury Group, is a global equity manager with a dividend ...

GESB trebles co-contributions after campaign

WA-based super fund GESB struck a winning formula after its 'Feed Your Super' campaign attracted three times more member co-contributions than it expected. The campaign is a fairly straightforward strategy where members are sent emails and snail mail ...