MORTGAGE

Financial planning

Australians’ dreams of owning their own home is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve with housing becoming less affordable, a new report reveals....

image
Financial planning

Non-major lenders dominated the home loan market in January and notched up the highest proportion of home loans since the GFC, mortgage broker AFG revealed....

image
Financial planning

The corporate regulator has hit out at the media for saying it bungled a loan fraud case worth $110 million, claiming the transgression it’s being blamed for is outside i...

image
Funds management

First home buying has fallen to its lowest level ever, making up just 6.9 per cent of all home loans, down from a previous long-term national average of 15 per cent, acco...

image
Financial planning

Authorised deposit-taking institutions’ mortgage lending practices will come under the microscope in 2015 as APRA seeks to clampdown on risky lending....

image
Financial planning

Most Australians are in the dark about how much commission mortgage brokers are earning for their home loan advice, a survey has revealed. ...

image
Financial planning

A South Australian finance broker has pleaded guilty to forging a memorandum of mortgage, to defraud $170,000 from an investor....

image
Financial planning

Integration between advice and mortgage broking has reintroduced conflicted remuneration banned under FOFA with the move labelled a ‘deliberate’ exploitation of a legisla...

image
Financial planning

Centrepoint looks to grow mortgage footprint across broader business with key appointment....

image
Financial planning

Mortgage Choice will push into financial planning aiming to double planners numbers by June 2015....

image
Financial planning

Banks’ efforts to capture lending market share has led to a surge in demand for mortgage experts, according to a Hays survey....

image
Funds management

Australia’s property market is being driven by a surge in first time investors, who view it as a way to future proof their wealth, a survey reveals....

image
Financial planning

Yellow Brick Road moved to acquire non-bank mortgage manager Resi, partly thanks to a recent capital raising arrangement. ...

image
Financial planning

Non-major lenders triple market share of new fixed-rate loans, with ME Bank leading the way peaking at 13.8 per cent in November....

image
Financial planning

Mortgage Choice spokesperson Belinda Williamson has suggested small pockets of declining interest in fixed rates may be a sign of increasing consumer confidence. ...

image
 

MARKET INSIGHTS

sub-bg sidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

Random

What happened to the 700,000 million of MLC if $1.2 Billion was migrated to Expand but Expand had only 512 Million in in...

1 hour ago
JOHN GILLIES

The judge was quite undrstanding! THEN AASSIICC comes along and closes him down!All you 15600 people who work in the bu...

22 hours 53 minutes ago
JOHN GILLIES

How could that underestimate happen?usually the quote transfer straight into the SOA, and what on earth has the commissi...

23 hours ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 3 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 2 weeks ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 3 weeks ago