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IRESS upgrades service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... IRESS' next upgrade is providing financial planners with easier access to alternative income streams such as mortgage broking and the ability to create a statement of advice across all investment platforms faster. The firm's next update, version 130 ...

Count buys $6m stake in Mortgage Choice

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2008
... mortgage broker under the advice of Lehman Brothers, noted a statement on the Australian Securities Exchange today. "Mortgage broking has been affected in the current market and so we thought it was a good opportunity to take advantage of Mortgage Choice's ...

BankWest's recruitment drive on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... everyday Australians access to financial advisers." HBOS plc subsidiary, BankWest, provides financial planning, mortgage broking and private banking services across Australia.

ASIC watching reverse mortgage materials

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... Australia's ageing population and hefty investment in bricks and mortar, ASIC conducted a review of the reverse mortgage broking sector and found five incidents of misleading advertising which implied the product had no requisite to be repaid. Some of ...

MIAA set for a new name

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... proactive in terms of where the industry is going. We're certainly seeing a lot of financial planners moving into mortgage broking or are developing an alliance with an existing mortgage broker." The MIAA has more than 10,000 members around Australia ...

FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... Mortgage brokers can expect to face a new licensing regime as early as next year that will align regulation of the mortgage broking industry with rules that prevail in the financial planning industry. Ian Clyde, chair of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code ...

Mortgage brokers see clearly with Vivid

... encroaching onto each other's space. "Competition is hotting up generally. Financial planners are moving into mortgage broking and vice versa." Michelle Baltazar

New broker licensing laws will hurt planners

Mortgage broking group National Mortgage Brokers (NMB) has set its sights on financial advisers ahead of new licensing laws next year that could prevent advisers from providing broking advice. NMB's managing director Gerald Foley has said that the line ...

CPA Aust and ICAA issue comprehensive new adviser standards

... easily be able to accommodate other advisory initiatives within the same frameworks, for example, aspects of mortgage broking and other similar service types depending how FSR proceeds. Major areas covered by the standards include disclosing and managing ...

Cash King to refund $170k for hidden fees

... company would also charge brokerage fees and legal fees when there are no brokers involved nor legal fees to pay. "Mortgage broking is an area where there's not much regulation. They sell credit products so they're not regulated like financial planners," ...