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Reverse mortgages jump 80 per cent to $1.5 billion

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Australia's emerging reverse mortgage market is growing at 80 per cent a year, the consulting actuary Deloitte Trowbridge reported yesterday. The country's 16 reverse mortgage lenders had $1.5 billion of loans on their books at December 31, up from ...

CHOICE rates reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... resolution scheme availability. In its report, CHOICE highlighted conditions that would constitute defaulting the reverse mortgage. "Many companies told us they have procedures in place to avoid or quickly resolve defaults. But reverse mortgage borrowers ...

Mortgage brokers bounce back in latest mystery shop

Mortgage and Finance brokers have beaten stereotypes to come up well in a survey of 104 members by the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia, contrasting sharply with a recent CHOICE magazine report criticising the integrity of brokers selling ...

Navigator broadens its horizons

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
... high quality investment options across the asset class spectrum," said Stuart Fechner, manager of Aviva Research. While mortgage funds continue to play a role within diversified portfolios there is increased competition from a variety of income-oriented ...

Aussie reverse mortgages world's best

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
The Australian reverse mortgage sector is in its infancy but our products have evolved so fast they lead the world, said Martin Lynch, director of reverse mortgages at ABN AMRO. "It's only been really the last four years there have been products here ...

Reverse mortgage standards under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
A CHOICE shadow shop survey of the reverse mortgage industry has revealed some poor practices and areas for concern, but plans are already underway from some in the industry to effect a uniform lift in standards. Three CHOICE representatives visited ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
... results are expected from CSL Ltd, Tabcorp Holdings, Toll Holdings, Skilled Group, Healthscope Ltd, Perpetual Ltd, Mortgage Choice, Transurban Group, Brambles Ltd, Pacific Brands and Investa Property. Australia's largest oil company, Woodside Petroleum ...

BankWest and ABN AMRO win Best of the Best reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... Best of the Best award for reverse mortgages sold by banks while ABN AMRO won the award for the best non-bank reverse mortgage. Macquarie and CommBank came in second and third for the banks while Bluestone and the Over Fifty Group came second and third ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... at 5,301. Today in the market, retailers Rebel Sport and Harvey Norman hold their annual general meetings as do Mortgage Choice and Mayne Pharma. Trade in Telstra stock is expected to continue to be a market focus today after the telco's instalment receipts ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
Australia's stop-start superannuation reforms in the last decade, that have focused more on choice rather than actually boosting savings, have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in missed savings opportunities and we are only now starting to catch ...