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PIS calls for industry and retail ceasefire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
Professional Investment Services (PIS) managing director, Grahame Evans, is calling for retail and industry super funds to put their philosophical differences aside and work together to provide a broader financial advice service to consumers. "I would ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are so large and so interwoven in our financial system that a failure of either of them would cause great turmoil in our financial markets here at home and around the globe. This turmoil would directly and negatively impact ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to slide today after Wall Street finished lower after a volatile day's trade. At 0743 AEST, the Sydney Futures Exchange's September share price index futures contract was 33 points down to 4,995. Releases today ...

Remarried war vet widows get pension

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
Widows and widowers of war veterans who might have had their pensions stopped after they remarried are now able to access their funds again under new government rules. According to the $3 billion Military Super, the Superannuation Act 1922, the Defence ...

Funeral insurance goes online

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Zurich Financial Services Australia is adding funeral cover to its online product range. Zurich unveiled the new online offering that aims to help fund the expenses associated with funerals as part of its ongoing strategy to make life insurance accessible ...

Free cash flow paves road to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
Grant Samuel Funds Management has launched a new global equity fund that sidesteps the popular P/E ratio yardstick in favour of 'free cash flow' analysis, which the company believes is the best metric to achieve higher risk-adjusted return. "There was ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
Australian stocks were 2.8 per cent lower at noon on a shortened trading day as big falls in the price of oil and gold and weaker industrial metal prices hammered resources stocks. The financials sector also was weaker after speculation that top-three ...

Macquarie shuts down US mortgage operation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
A week after Macquarie Bank announced its decision to get out of the Australian mortgage market, the group's US subsidiary Macquarie Mortgages Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, wrote to brokers informing them that it would no longer be accepting applications ...

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. ...

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 ...