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Macquarie buys insolvent Canadian mortgage funder

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
Macquarie Bank will buy Canadian mortgage funder Cervus Financial Group Inc - currently in bankruptcy protection - for A$15 million. According Canadian media reports, Cervus has around A$1.2 billion in loans under management for a market share of less ...

Plum head of business departs

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Major corporate superannuation fund Plum Superannuation will lose its head of business development next month. Alex Kleiman, who helped grow the group following its full acquisition by MLC in 2003, will leave to join research house Chant West Financial ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
... could undermine the housing market's slow return to ability. This is evidenced by the almost instantaneous lifting of home loan mortgage rates by a number of lenders. In offshore news, growth in the Eurozone economy appears to be gaining traction. Real ...

Virgin motors on with new chief

Virgin Money has appointed NRMA's David Wakeley as its new chief executive officer two months after the resignation of founding chief Rohan Gamble. "We were somewhat overwhelmed by the number of applications we had to wade through for the role and in ...

Intrust goes public offer

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2006
Queensland based hospitality and tourism industry fund, Intrust Super Fund, has launched a new public offer category for non-employer sponsored and self-employed members. Instrust's chief executive officer, Brendan O'Farrell, said they will market the ...

Employees want more reward flexibility

Employees prefer financial rewards or a combination of financial and non-financial rewards over straight non-cash benefits, according to a survey of employees by HR services group Hays. The survey asked 2,300 people what type rewards they would like ...

Gen X and Y oblivious to super choice: Max Super

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2006
... way off, is enabling younger people to access their superannuation savings sooner, for things like the deposit on a home loan. That will bring it into the immediate and make it real for the younger generation. If you look at the baby boomers they have ...

Recovering house prices to sustain wealth affect

... assessment, PMI, in their March 2006 'PMI Residential Property Update', have reported more signs of modest growth in new home loan activity which they say should point to higher levels of sales activity. Ian Graham, chief executive officer of PMI, said ...

David Jones adds more financial services to shopping list

Leading department store David Jones has announced plans to expand its financial services operations, a move that reinforces its slogan that there's no other store like, well, David Jones. Chief executive officer, Mark McInnes, has said at the interim ...

NAB bundles home loans with insurance

National Australia Bank (NAB), together with its subsidiary MLC, has brought to market a new product called the Protected Loan, a combined mortgage and insurance package. Underinsurance is a huge problem in Australia. The Protected Loan is aimed at ...