Bloomberg info for Clime Asset Management.. just found this interesting ETF after reading this article on the InvestEd site… pity it isn’t on the St George margin lending acceptable securities list though.
Well Etrade has been taken over by ANZ, so my Etrade shares just replaced by equivalent value of ANZ shares. A pity as I liked Etrade.. not as much of a fan of ANZ (I had a few ANZ accounts and the fees way too high, give me Bendigo Bank any day!).. but then as a shareholder there are surely worse shares to hold.
bloomberg share info for Viridis Clean Energy group - invests in a range of clean energy assets around the world. St George Margein lending GR of 50%.
Some interesting ones I hadn’t noticed before.
APN/UKA European Retail Trust - Shopping Malls in Europe? - St George ML gearing ratio 60%.
Aurora Sandringham Dividend Income Trust The Trust will predominantly trade the largest 30 companies on the Australian Stock Exchange and aims to take advantage of the changes in the market prices of shares around the announcement of their half-yearly and yearly results. This makes the trust different from other listed investments. - St George ML gearing ratio 70%.
The much vaunted rent crisis - being talked up by real estate agents pretending to be distressed would be tenants on the TV news? Is this an attempt by the real estate industry to drive up rents by propaganda methods?
Rental ‘crisis’ could be a myth - The Australian
Who’s Raising The Rent? - Mediawatch
Sydney is full of Elissa Kracjers, young people searching anxiously for a place to call their own, at a rent that won’t send them broke. It’s almost mission impossible.
Elissa Kracjer: I found a place after about two months of solid looking.
There wasn’t what I wanted in the market.
— Channel 9, Sydney News, 9th January, 2007
Until recently, Elissa Kracjer was a real estate agent, managing rental properties.
And she has some fascinating political connections too.
Elissa Kracjer: My ex is an adviser to (NSW Premier) Morris Iemma and one of my friends who is a (Peter) Debnam staffer thought it would be a
funny way to get back at him if I came out on the Liberal’s side…(Opposition leader) Peter Debnam was making a statement or announcement on it that afternoon or evening so they staged a lot of things for me to say to go with it.
Good local blog with a lot of useful discussion on small picture personal finance and investing.. direct link to personal finance section.
Found this pdf file from Reliance Capital that defines Listed Managed Investments such as Exchange Traded Funds and Listed investment Companies more precisely.. I had been referring to them kind of interchangeably.
Looks like they have some other handy info on their site as well.
Found this natty summary of Listed Managed Investments on the ASX site while googling about, mentions a few I wasn’t really aware about, some wierd numbers in there.. for instance what is NEW PRIVATEER HOLDINGS LIMITED and how did they return 432.26% in the last year?
Pretty amazing for a company that dont appear to even have a web site.
Well the main reason I am looking at these is because since I started dabbling in this investment stuff (and in the case of Bendigo Bank, well before) I have been using the products and services of these companies.. so given the superannuation driven “forced” investment environment in Australia I have a hunch they will continue to do OK regardless.
ETRADE : summary : St George gearing ratio 50%
Australian Stock Exchange : summary : St George gearing ratio 70%
Wether people are going mad buying or selling, these guys will always get a cut.
Hunter Hall International Limited : summary : St George gearing ratio 45%
The company that runs the managed funds, super funds and ETFs of the same name.. as I own chunks of all of them this would be kind of kicking back some of the fees to myself I guess?
Australian Ethical Investment Limited : summary : not on the St George list of shares available for gearing.
With HHL at 45% and these guys not even listed seems the banks consider investment firms a bit of a risk.
Bendigo Bank Limited: summary : St George gearing ratio 70%
St. George Bank Limited: summary : St George gearing ratio 75%
Use a St George margin loan to buy St George shares so the dividends help pay the interest that go back to the dividends.. very underpants gnomes I say.