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Brokers consider their options

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
A CoreData report found roughly 2,000 mortgage brokers believe they will change broking groups in the next year as big banks cut commissions and continue to squeeze them out of the industry. The study of 700 Australian mortgage brokers revealed two ...

More pain for insurance firms

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... driven by asset depletion of the balance sheet of insurers, and driven by the new regulations that come down the pipe in the next couple of months. "That will reduce capacity and increase the cost for insurance," he said. Mahoney also flagged the trend ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... early this year is now at US$163. The group boasts US$18 cash per share on the balance sheet and FCF of US$10 per share for next year. Another stock Nestle is now sitting on a high FCF yield of 7.6 per cent. Oil stock National Oilwell Varco took a pummelling ...

WealthBuilder targets generational clients

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... industry over the past decade has been on wealth accumulation for retirement, but estate planning will be a real issue over the next decade, and for the advisers who are able to cater for this need, their businesses will benefit," said Mota. WealthBuilder ...

Hedge funds slam ban extension

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... non-financial stocks by another 28 days to November 18. Although the ban has been extended, ASIC expects to lift the ban as of the next day's trading but it would largely depend on the "state of the markets". The short selling ban on financial stocks ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... has been the CIO of the $7 billion-plus fund for over five years. A statement from the firm said that he is taking time off next year to spend with his young family. "[Shepherd] has been instrumental in developing the investments department into a professional ...

Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... economic conditions will get worse as - in this world of global interdependence - one economy's weakness is transmitted into the next, and then the next and then fed back into the first. The good news is that governments have all acknowledged that there ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... got NAB and ANZ reporting," Mr Smith said. "What are they going to say and moreover what are they going to say about the next 12 months? "So a few question marks coming into the weekend." National Australia Bank fell 46 cents, or 2.03 per cent, to $22.24 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... price indices for the September quarter. The Melbourne Institute releases its October bulletin of economic trends for the next four quarters. In company news, Macquarie Airports holds a special shareholders' meeting in Sydney to vote on proposed buyback ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... of September, Australian shares (ASX200) have been forecast by UBS to be paying a dividend yield of 5.02 per cent over the next year. Finally, Perennial's research also shows that investing ten months after the last six market peaks has paid off, as ...