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REST steps on board Members Equity

... best five year fixed investment loan and best three year fixed home loan, the Members Equity MasterCard won 'cheapest credit card for 2006' and the Members Equity Personal Loan was also named 'cheapest personal loan for 2006'. Michelle Baltazar

Coming soon: Virgin personal loans

... quicker turnaround times for loan applicants. The group plans to emulate the success of its low-cost Virgin Money Credit Card by launching the equally no-frills, low-fee Virgin Personal Loans product by the first quarter of next year. Chief executive ...

AXA makes billing easier for advisers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... billing. "Fee4Advice encompasses an invoicing facility, the ability to make deductions from client accounts, receive credit card payments and process BPay transactions. It is also supported by fantastic reporting tools that are intuitive and easy to ...

Aussies spend $8.7bn on celebrity makeover

... your favourite celebrity?" after a Virgin Money study found that Australians have racked up an annual $8.7 billion credit card bill to look like their movie idols. The latest Virgin Money Celebrity Spending Survey has revealed that two in three young ...

S&P raise MEB credit rating

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... material increase from 0.22% in 2005." S&P say they expect ongoing flows into MEB's off-balance-sheet funds, the bank's credit card and personal lending portfolios and reported no big rises in asset write-offs. MEB is owned by 40 industry funds and provides ...

ASIC plays educator on the radio

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched a six part radio series, Your Money, designed to help consumers distinguish genuine financial opportunities from scams. "Consumers are often dazzled by offers of high returns from ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... the economics front Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks in Sydney and the second day of a parliamentary enquiry into credit card, debit card and ATM fees continues. Also the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases March lending finance data and April ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2006
... Holdings will reveal third quarter earnings. On the economics front a parliamentary committee hosts a briefing on credit card, debit card and ATM fees. NEW YORK - US stocks fell sharply, extending a two-day slide as higher import prices lifted inflation ...

Virgin motors on with new chief

Virgin Money has appointed NRMA's David Wakeley as its new chief executive officer two months after the resignation of founding chief Rohan Gamble. "We were somewhat overwhelmed by the number of applications we had to wade through for the role and in ...

Fin literacy won't happen overnight, but it will happen: Clitheroe

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
Paul Clitheroe, chair of the Financial Literacy Task Force, believes improving financial literacy is a 20 year project. Being a long term project, he said, it starts in the home, should be taught in schools and, above all, needs to be demonstrated through ...