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Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The boutique Australian equity fund manager Contango Asset Management is branching out with the release yesterday of a prospectus for a listed investment company that has a mandate to invest purely in the financial services industry. The prospectus ...

NSW Govt to launch biodiversity fund

... public and managed fund industry specialists keen to get more information. Details will also be available on their website www.environment.nsw.gov.au. "The Department of Environment is not a fund manager so someone else has to manage the fund. One possibility ...

Big is better, but not best

... if you lose that connection then you lose your members." But the Rainmaker report, which is available from the CMSF website www.cmsf.com.au, found overwhelming evidence that "big funds have resources that we just can't ignore," to the extent that smaller ...

Bank interest comparison rate on way out

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
Just as superannuation advocates from the low-cost segment have been promoting more standardised fee measures, the model for which was the banking sector's 'comparison rate', it looks like the banking sector is set to dump its comparison measure after ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
The Australian Government must appoint an over-arching body to guide innovators through the regulatory maze or risk missing out on genuine product development in financial services, one of the entrepreneurs behind the new shared equity market contends. ...

ALP would cut financial literacy funding: Dutton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The Federal Government's www.understandingmoney.gov.au website has picked up a 'highly commended' award from a top selling internet magazine, but the Government has warned voters that the Opposition would cut funding for the Financial Literacy Taskforce ...

Equity lenders prepare to take on reverse mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
Shared equity lenders are preparing for a turf war with reverse mortgage lenders for the retiree equity release market. The first non-government shared equity loan, Rismark's equity finance mortgage, is being marketed at this stage to first home buyers ...

Less internet banking fraud at ANZ

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
ANZ say they have substantially cut internet banking fraud and confirmed that they see security as a competitive issue. ANZ, in a media release issued in connection with an award from an industry magazine, said that losses from internet banking fraud ...

FPA's Value of Advice Awards 2007

... based Momentum Planning and one of the winners last year. Nominations close in May with details available on the FPA website, www.fpa.asn.au. Michelle Baltazar

Private equity lending restrained at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
Westpac Institutional Bank group executive Phil Chronican spelled out the bank's approach to providing leverage finance to private equity groups at an investor briefing this week. The bank has been active in supporting private equity transactions "that ...