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Bravura becomes a prime buy target

Caught up in the troubles of margin lender Lift Capital, homegrown financial software group Bravura has become an even juicier takeover target for IT companies, private equity and even fund managers, with Archer Capital, GBST, DSTi and Perpetual named ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon as investors were unwilling to buy stocks because of concerns about losses related to credit markets and margin loans. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.4 points, or 0.42 per cent ...

Brushing up market integrity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
Amidst recent shake-ups in securities lending, director share trading, margin loans and short selling, IFSA and ACSI have joined forces to outline their views on how market transparency and disclosure should be rendered. According to the Investment ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Australian shares had surged by almost four per cent at noon led by banking stocks after the US Federal Reserve announced a $US200 billion liquidity injection into the financial sector overnight. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained ...

Comm Bank appoints lending head

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... Investments division. Clothier will manage the distribution of Colonial Geared Investments products including Colonial Margin Loan, CALIA+ and warrants and structured products. Additionally, he is responsible for building relations between Commonwealth ...

Tricom trading on unusual terms

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... couple of columns yesterday, may have best explained the most salient issues. Columnist Alan Kohler noted that Tricom's margin loan contracts confer beneficial ownership of the shares onto Tricom. It is not acting as trustee and does not have a first ...

Tricom a day late on settlements

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... margin loans and targets high net worth, and notionally wealthy, clients. The Herald Sun reported that the firm had a margin loan portfolio of $2.2 billion at June 2007 but had reduced that subsequently. The newspaper named ANZ and Merrill Lynch as two ...

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
Association of Financial Advisers 2007 Rising Star winner Chris Browne has suggested Australia could end its Gen X and Y housing affordability problems by extending tax deductions on margin loans to home loans. He said while the idea was not a new one ...

Advisers lead margin lending push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... and not the norm, so they don't come to expect the market goes in one direction." While the result pushed BT's total margin loan book past the $5 billion mark, a jump of 36 per cent for the year to September 30, the results did not quite match last year ...

Margin loan changes more than marginal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
... for these organisations but it can lead to a reduction in their flexibility, which is surprising." The more dynamic margin loan environment comes at a time when self-managed super funds (SMSF) are being targeted for property loans. Calliva Group Limited ...