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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2007
... slashed its earnings outlook for four major Wall Street banks, fuelling another sell-off in financial shares. Shares of credit card company American Express and of Goldman Sachs Group Inc, the largest US securities firm, led financials lower. Home builders ...

Reverse mortgages, three years on

... the spend. 'Some borrowers had difficulty budgeting. One borrower with a reverse mortgage said it was 'like having a credit card with a $100,000 credit limit and no repayments'," said Greg Tanzer, ASIC's executive director of consumer protection. The ...

Polaris sets PACE

Insurers and fund managers can shorten the time it takes to develop and market new investment products after a new Polaris software testing centre sets up shop in Sydney. The leading finance IT provider has set up a new specialist software testing lab ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... Fujitsu found that nearly 300,000 households are in "mild stress" (making regular mortgage payments but racking up credit card debts), up a hefty 37 per cent from the numbers a month ago. "Not all household segments are equally impacted but the pain ...

That four-letter word

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... Debt is becoming a colossal problem in Australian and we seem to be losing the battle to pay it as defaults across credit card debt, personal loans and mortgages have risen nationally by 35.5 per cent. In their latest study, based on 14million-plus credit ...

BT Financial and Westpac launch all-in-one super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
A month after BT Financial Group chief executive Rob Coombe challenged the industry to find better ways to engage the public on the retirement savings debate, the group and Westpac have introduced sweeping changes to the way BT provides superannuation-related ...

All about Eve

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2007
Barclays' Wealth Management has estimated that by 2020, women will outnumber men in the millionaire's club, and within 20 years, 60 per cent of the world's wealth will be managed by women. The global study is supported by local research from Veda Advantage ...

Automate at ILOG speed

... services market can use business rules management systems (BRMS) software to process anything from insurance policies to credit card applications and other rules or policy-intensive applications. "We're surrounded by policies be it government, financial ...

Rates rising everywhere bar big bank mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
... basis points, though this rate is reviewed every three months. St George Bank put up the rate on its low rate Vertigo credit card by 96 basis points. A spokesperson for St George said it was the first change to the Vertigo rate since it was launched ...

Having another crack at online mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... group would be interested in having an online service. "It is not the idea of buying online that puts them off. Online credit card and personal loan sales are quite high. "It is the poor quality of the service that is currently available online. The ...