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Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
Specialist global credit investment managers Bentham Asset Management have won a major new mandate from AustralianSuper worth $350 million. The segregated global loan mandate, issued in the March quarter, will increase Bentham's funds under management ...

Challenger wins $200m from AustralianSuper

AUSTRALIANSUPER RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
... is invested in debt securities, has enabled it to be one of the few active non-bank financial institutions in the loan market since the GFC." He said AustralianSuper's scale in funds under management means that Challenger is in a rare position to be ...

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... life insurance comes at a time when insurance revenues are at all time highs. This contrasts starkly with the home loan market which have hit lows following tightening credit and the fallout of the GFC. It also comes at a time when certain big bank-alligned ...

Aussie John cracks insurance market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... also entering the insurance market at a time when insurance revenues are at record peaks, contrasting with the home loan market which have hit lows compared to previous years. Under the Aussie Life Plan, a 35-year-old female non-smoker can get $500,000 ...

Banks to reprioritise IT spending

THESHEET.COM WITH ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... banking groups cutting back on their IT spend comes just as an online consumer survey conducted by mortgage broker Loan Market Group found almost 60 per cent of Australians have concerns or doubts about the quality of service from their finance provider. ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... home buyers are wading back to the market thanks to new government incentives. Jennifer Nielsen, chief executive of Loan Market Group, which includes X Inc Finance, said an analysis of hits on the company's website in the first three weeks of October ...

Syndicated loan market contracts by half

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
Syndicated lending by Australian banks fell by around half during the March 2008 quarter, in one measure of the restricted availability of corporate credit since the global credit crunch emerged in mid 2007. The Bank for International Settlements estimated ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... Wall Street by raising its growth outlook and unveiling a plan to raise new capital to support the beleagured home loan market. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 66.20 points, or 0.52 per cent, to end at 12,898.38. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... challengers to the dominance of the largest banks. Over the last six years Macquarie expanded its share of the home loan market by almost half and was one of the few challengers - along with ING Direct, Rams, and Adelaide Bank - to achieve consistent ...

MLC eyes distressed bank loan market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... allocated pension clients, will focus on investment opportunities stemming from the liquidity-squeezed global bank loan market. Peter Sumner, MLC portfolio manager, debt, said the firm recognised the value that can be generated by investing opportunistically ...