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AMP puts pedal to the metal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2006
AMP's emphatic revival continues, with the company reporting a 29 per cent increase in cash inflows to $2.66 billion in the March quarter. Net cash flows came in at $341 million, nearly triple the $115 million reported in the previous corresponding ...

Babcock & Brown swells infrastructure by $3.4bn

Home grown infrastructure group Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (ASX: BBI) has agreed to buy US utility giant NorthWestern in an all-cash deal worth US$2.23 billion ($3 billion) along with a 51 per cent stake in WestNet Rail for $435 million. The acquisitions ...

PrefSure scores rating upgrade thanks to TOWER

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2006
S&P has upgraded PrefSure Life's rating to BBB+, on par with new parent TOWER's rating. TOWER acquired PrefSure Life on 31 March 2006 and S&P declared a "positive outlook" on PrefSure Life, noting the merger would provide synergies to the two entities ...

Young business owners to shun 'bricks and mortar' lending

... said. The trend away from traditional security is also good news for mum-and-dad businesses that suffer from periodic cash flow problems. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that some 4,440 small to medium enterprises (SMEs) were declared bankrupt ...

Flexibility but at a great price - the Virgin Mortgages way

... repayments for variable and low doc loans, and repayment holidays of up to 12 months when the borrower is suffering from cash flow problems. "We have structured our product to be flexible for people across their lifecycle, not just during a certain point ...

Lloyd George draws $66 million Funds SA mandate

... It aims to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in reasonably priced companies with sustainable earnings and cash flow growth. The fund currently has $75 million FUM. Another seed investor is the MF International Select Fund, a Myer Family Office ...

Virgin home loan spices up mortgage lending

... drawcard, a repayment holiday. Branson said customers can take repayment holidays of up to 12 months when they are having cash flow problems such as "when the wife gets pregnant" or "the husband finds himself out of work". Asked how Virgin would respond ...

Macq Cash Management Trust swells to $12bn

... there is further scope for growth for the Macquarie Cash Management Trust. "More and more advisers are realising that cash flow management is an essential part of their service offering to clients, and the Macquarie CMT is the leading tool to help them ...

Let's get ethical: Hunter Hall

... those which are heavily discounted based on their price-to-book, enterprise value to EBITDA and enterprise value to free cash flow valuation. So far that meant investing heavily into the Asia-Pacific region and Continental Europe. More recently, Lowenstein ...

JBWere launches Aussie infrastructure fund

... as well as offshore. Frankish says the fund will be run much like their other equity funds, on a heavily discounted cash flow base concentrating on valuation stocks first, and yield second. He added, "One way is to pick on yield alone - we would rather ...