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Calliva suspends new loans to SMSFs

THE SHEET  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... renew Calliva's senior facility in its current form. "The problem is that in this market it is difficult to term out anything that is not a AAA-rated security," he said. Scully said he was in discussions with a couple of other funders and hoped to announce ...

Proactive planners ease client concerns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... it easy to understand. After that we did get some phone calls but it was more about clarifying what the content than anything else," said Browne. "We referred to study which found that if you pulled your money after a correction, what long term financial ...

Rates on hold thanks to oil prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2008
... mountain. Perhaps ironically, the monetary savior is fiscal policy in the form of the tax cuts that are now phasing in. "If anything, the tax cuts are going to allow households to claw back a bit of purchasing power," he said. Oil prices are also having ...

Moment of truth

CAMERON BOGGS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... start talking to their super fund because of all the persistent media reports about super fund losses. "In that context, anything that is a moment of truth is an opportunity to engage with our members," she said. But maybe it's because the majority of ...

Canadian RMBS not the answer: S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... proposing is that the market will come back by itself. So in the first instance we don't believe it's necessary to do anything at this stage," said Bayley. However Bayley is not completely discounting the need for the provision of widely-based short ...

Super funds pay little attention to biotech

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... look at investing in a $400 million [company] or thereabouts, because their own cost structures won't allow them to do anything else," said Kaufman. But Kaufman believes that steering clear of niches and spreading funds across a spectrum of biotech initiatives ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... "uncomfortably high inflation" as the basis for its most recent interest rate rise. "The RBA minutes are not telling us anything new," Mr Heffernan said. "(It) is likely finished with interest rate rises, as the economy is cooling and the RBA has said ...

The looming inflationary upswing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... McCloskey, publisher of the McCloskey's Coal Report, telling the lastoilshock.com news website that, "We've never seen anything like it". With all this going, expecting Prime Minister Rudd and his new government to be able to do much to battle global ...

Count down to lower H2 revenue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... in after-tax profits for the second half of 2007, but the firm makes no pretense in warning that the figures will be anything but rosy for the same time this year. Count Financial reported a net profit of $10.74 million for the half-year ending 31 December ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... lead, weaker commodity prices and everyone on hold until the rate decision is keeping people on the sidelines more than anything," Mr Halliday said. "There is a very widespread view that the Reserve Bank will raise rates so, until we get that out of ...