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Warnings on ‘high-yield’ products reach fever pitch
Tread carefully on how you navigate the current landscape given everything appears calm on the surface.
Beware the next looming loan crisis
New operators with little experience are rushing into the mortgage market
Investing in mortgages: the other side of property market
With term deposits now cut further still, it is inevitable investors will turn to high-yield opportunities outside the sharemarket.
Hunting for yield
Michael Holm, executive chairman of Balmain Corporation, explains how commercial property loans offer strong income returns, low loan to value ratios and multiple levels of security.
Mortgage trusts offer better return for yield-hungry, says SQM
Rising returns and improved transparency could provide "flourishing" conditions for Australian mortgage trusts, according to SQM Research, which analyses property investments.
Demand from financial planners sparks development of new adviser portal
Unexpected demand from financial planners to help SMSF clients find income-producing investments has led boutique fund manager Balmain Private to start work on an adviser portal for its online mortgage investment platform.
Balmain responds to turmoil directly
The changing demands of self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees as they enter retirement, and concerns over potential barriers between asset managers and investors created by platforms, have prompted the boutique fund manager Balmain Funds to adopt a different tack to getting its wares to market.
Product Watch - Balmain Discrete Mortgage Income Trusts
Possibly the safest way to invest in commercial real estate debt for self-managed superannuation funds that we've come across.
Product Road Test - Balmain Discrete Mortgage Income Trusts
If you have been involved in commercial property, you are bound to have heard of the Balmain Group. If you haven’t, then Balmain is Australia’s largest non-bank commercial property loan organisation, having originated more than $30 billion of commercial mortgage loans since its foundation in 1979.
Balmain fund targets SMSFs
The nation’s leading non-bank commercial property loan operation, Balmain, has launched a mortgage fund for a new era of self-managed super fund investors.
