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Westpac jumps in to save RAMS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Westpac has thrown a lifeline to troubled home loan lender RAMS Home Loans, offering to buy the franchise distribution arm for $140 million in cash. The purchase will include the RAMS brand, franchise network and associated mortgage origination, servicing ...

Dollar for dollar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Despite the doom and gloom coming from the mouths of former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan and Federal Reserve officials, Wall Street's record-breaking performance overnight jettisoned the Australian share market into uncharted territory at today's open. ...

Through the looking Glass Onion

Boutique web developer Glass Onion is fast gaining a name for itself after two successful projects where they gave finance websites a human face. The group has recently completed a web design for Community First Credit Union (CFCU) where CFCU clients ...

Customer satisfaction is a measure of indifference

... Norris was telling the market that he had happier customers he was reporting that that bank had lost 20 basis points of home loan market share during the year, 30 basis points in household deposits and 1.5 percentage points of credit card share. The ...

Comm Foundation partners with teachers on FinLit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Commonwealth Bank Foundation is partnering with Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers (AAMT) to jointly run financial literacy professional development workshops for teachers. The Foundation has a long history of being involved with financial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon following a soft lead from Wall Street overnight. At 1144 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 24.4 points to 6160.8 and the all ordinaries had lost 23.7 points to 6161.2. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open softer today, after a soft performance in New York, as US stocks fell after data showed the number of unsold homes reached its highest level in more than 15 years in July, fanning concerns about housing ...

On the sub-prime defensive

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
Sub-prime fallout and more than a little paranoia has hit markets hard in recent weeks leading some investors with exposure, and others with none, to become defensive. Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, had raised concerns over local councils' heavy ...

ANZ eyes ING and maybe AMP

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... someone from ANZ remake life insurance and someone else from AMP work out how to take ANZ to a fifth or a quarter of the home loan market. And own up to the need to take out a lot more costs in basic services. There's no way productivity levels are high ...

AMP loses share to banks in risk insurance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl acknowledged yesterday that life companies faced a challenge from the banks in one of their traditional strongholds, the risk insurance market. Mohl also announced he would leave AMP at the end of 2007 after five years ...