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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open lower after US stocks slid as investors sold off financial shares on fears that funding for leveraged buyouts could dry up and hurt bank profits. Base metals were up in London. At 0702 AEDT on the Sydney ...

MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

Building green for the future

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Green buildings are gaining traction in Australia and superannuation funds should act now if they would like to cash in on the sustainable building sector, says an industry expert. Michael Drapac, managing director of green property funds manager Drapac ...

St George appoints margin lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
St George Group has appointed David Curry to general manager of margin lending. Curry was previously St George head of payment solutions and held positions at Westpac, Rothchilds Australia Asset Management and Ernst & Young before joining the bank three ...

Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Warren Chant of Chant West said super funds with $5 billion or less "should not be in existence", but others are calling his claims over the top. Heated debates on the role of fund ratings firms at yesterday's CMSF conference saw Chant ply the notion ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
The Australian share market was higher at noon, boosted by financials and the prospect of another interest rate cut in the United States later tonight. The Dow Jones industrial average made a late comeback overnight, which also bolstered the local bourse. ...

Trust and Equity Trustees in merger talks

ASX-listed trustee services providers, Trust Company and Equity Trustees are in merger talks, potentially creating a company with more than $450 million market cap. Trust has confirmed the possible merger but wrote in an ASX statement that its board ...

Bluestone cuts back hard

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Bluestone Group is the latest lender to make big cuts in its lending program in the face of increasingly risk-averse global debt markets. Bluestone, a specialist supplier of non-conforming loans, told staff and business partners yesterday that it would ...

FPA to offer Life Risk course

The Financial Planning Association is to provide accreditation in speciality professional areas, with the Life Risk Advisers program the first off the rank. FPA chief executive Jo-Anne Bloch said the FPA has developed the new education program to enable ...

Uni to offer SMSF degree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) trustee education will be boosted with plans to develop postgraduate and certificate programs in potentially half a dozen universities around Australia. "Adelaide University has developed an SMSF certificate and masters ...