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The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... Australian Mortgage Acceptance Corp hiked its rates to double the RBA figure, for new customers on its standard variable home loan. So far, the NAB is the only big lender to announce plans to lift its rates by 25 basis points. Its peers seem reluctant ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

The sub-prime contagion's knock-on effect has so far collided with leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, high yield currencies and global equities. Now local councils are feeling the heat. While consensus has been that the sub-prime fallout would ...

Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
Wizard Home Loans founder Mark Bouris and former UBS banker Bryan Davies have joined forces to create new retail advice and wealth management company Yellow Brick Road (YBR). The company will focus on after-tax returns, offering advice, accounting ...

BankWest throws a barbie

As if high interest bearing savings accounts and low rate loans weren't good enough, BankWest organised a free sausage sizzle at a local bank branch opening to attract new customers. The group organised the sausage sizzle last Friday as part of the ...

Westpac adds to growing trophy cabinet

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... World's Most Sustainable Bank, number one in corporate responsibility, Australian sustainable company of the year and Best Home Loan Package and Best Featured Home Loan, awarded by Money magazine.

Bank branches finally start to sell wealth product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... sell wealth management products and improve their cross-sell rates. Westpac reported that the number of bank-originated home loan customers taking out home and contents insurance with their mortgage rose from 38 per cent to 45 per cent over the past ...

Bevan to hit retail mortgage market for six

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
Former test cricketer and one-day star Michael Bevan has entered what will hopefully be a winning partnership with consultancy The Franchise Shop to establish a chain of retail mortgage franchises around the country. Michael Bevan Mortgages ambitiously ...

LIXI makes lending technologies more affordable

... The initiative will mean that LIXI will not be an "exclusive club for the bigger players", he said. And it also means home loan applications are going to be cheaper using the standardised model. One valuer, RPG Property, has already shaved $3,500 off ...

Time to look at Gen Xers

... super funds provide useful and general investment advice on their website, from how to pay credit card debt to what a home loan is, as a way to win Gen X clients. "We don't care if you are a super fund...what we care about is if you are a financial security ...

Houses at half price

... together to offer a 'co-ownership plan', a type of shared equity arrangement product with a twist. Essentially, their home loan products break the ownership 50-50 between the purchaser who wants to live or rent the property and the 'equity partner' ...