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Bank interest comparison rate on way out

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
... sector is set to dump its comparison measure after it has been found to be a failure. The Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA), which represents mortgage brokers, said state governments were maintaining a complex and costly system that ...

New chairman for SPAA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
The board of the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has announced SuperConcepts technical manager, Graeme Colley, as the new chairman. Current chairman Peter Hogan will remain with SPAA as vice chair. Colley, technical ...

Reverse mortgage standards under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2007
... legislate minimum standards. However, Peter McGuinness, a founding member of the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) and chief executive officer of Bluestone Equity Release, said the results were not surprising. "I think ...

Reverse mortgages to mature: SEQUAL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007
... products to market, according to Keiren Dell, chief executive officer of the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL). Dell backed up the findings of a recent Trowbridge Deloitte survey commissioned by Bluestone that revealed ...

FPA checklist to guide members on super switching

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) before finalizing the checklist. "This is a good example of industry associations working ...

Smith to depart ASFA

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
Philippa Smith has announced her resignation as chief executive officer of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). Smith has been at the helm of ASFA for the past nine years. "I am immensely proud of what I and the team at ASFA ...

BIAM appoints head of sales

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... be based in Melbourne. Elvish is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and a member of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia Investment Committee. Pat Lardner, regional director of BIAM Australia said: "We are delighted ...

SEQUAL defends advisers on reverse mortgages

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
The Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) has hit back at claims made by the Members Equity Bank that advisers will sell reverse mortgages in order to pocket the commission. Kieren Dell, SEQUAL executive director, responded ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) estimates that the total cost of unnecessary and duplicate superannuation accounts is $315 million per year, a fraction of the $2 billion figure by consumer group CHOICE. The findings were ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
The peak body for mortgage and business finance brokers, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA), may be forced to rewrite its membership rules if the competition watchdog upholds a complaint. The MFAA, formerly the Mortgage Industry ...