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Hejaz expands with three new funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... the Income Fund aims for a 6% p.a. return that provides credit to low-risk commercial development projects and first-mortgage financing with low loan-to-valuation ratio. The fund will be seeded with $60 million from Hejaz's Ethical Income Fund, the flagship ...

SocietyOne launches portal, hires

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... appointed head of broker distribution and business analyst. He was previously a regional manager for NSW and the ACT at Mortgage Choice. Melissa Romeo was also appointed Victorian business development manager and Matthew Chaffey was promised to national ...

Teachers Mutual launches neobank

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... found 37% of essential workers were likely to choose a digital bank over the next three years. Hiver has launched retail mortgage and deposit products that are independently certified as responsible investments by the Responsible Investment Association ...

Coolabah lists fund on Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
... 0+ Yr Index. It invests in bonds issued by governments, banks, corporates, and asset-backed securities and residential mortgage-backed securities with an average target credit rating of A. Coolabah has priced the Chi-X fund at 30bps per year. "We are ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... this constitutes a barrier to the post-pandemic recovery. Nearly three quarters (73%) of the experts believed that high mortgage debts, reflecting high house prices, raise instability risks for the economy and 85% think short term interest rate policies ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... price growth to be fired up again in the spring selling season by investors returning to the market, encouraged by low mortgage lending rates, three more months of savings and a strengthening economy."

LIBOR phased out by year end

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... rate to the advantage of hedge funds. The scandal also resulted in US homeowners filing a class action against their mortgage lenders, claiming that LIBOR manipulation made mortgage repayments more expensive. This case was based on analysis showing LIBOR ...

Westpac senior leader departs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... director and division director in banking at Macquarie Group. She was also the chief executive of AdvantEdge when the mortgage business was owned by Lendlease. NAB purchased MLC from Lendlease in 2000, and AdvantEdge came to be under MLC. Westpac would ...

Criminal charges filed against ME Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... comment further but confirmed the matters are not ongoing. It is understood this case is not in relation to last year's mortgage redraw drama. A date for the first return of the matter is yet to be set, with further details to follow that hearing ...

Advisers report burnout, breaking point: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... Adam Fraser and Deakin Business School senior lecturer John Molineux, found among other professionals working in the mortgage lending, banking, professional services and educational industries, advisers recorded the lowest scores in the areas of wellbeing ...