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AIOFP launches fresh campaign, criticises FPA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... director Peter Johnston said advisers have an opportunity to force change, leveraging similar techniques employed by the mortgage broking sector post-Royal Commission. "During the last quarter of 2018 we all witnessed politicians being forced into listening ...

Oil tanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... country's third-largest bank - announced in August last year that it would pay home borrowers 0.5% per annum to take out a mortgage. Sweet! And that was pre-coronavirus time. This time it's all about oil. US oil futures contracts expiring on 21 April ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... prior to this was that most people don't need advice, they just need an investment option and to save money into their mortgage." That might have been fine in the good times, but it's those unadvised people who could be doing immense damage to their ...

YBR national advice lead moves to Interprac

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
Former Yellow Brick Road national advice manager Sharon Walker has moved to Interprac as part of its acquisition of the YBR advice business. Walker moved into the role of practice development manager at Interprac in March. Interprac managing director ...

Industry bodies work to ease regulatory burdens

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... Marshan said. "Telling someone who has lost their job to take $10,000 out of super to put food on the table and pay their mortgage might be a no brainer but we're in a regulatory environment where it can take 26 hours of work to provide that piece of ...

Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... uncertainty, Peleg said. "First, they should ensure that financially they are in a very strong position to service the mortgage or to potentially address longer periods of vacancy or provide a discount on the rent," he said. "Then, if they do want to ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... "Fixed income ETFs are relatively new and weren't around during the GFC or the credit crisis in 2011 when credit and mortgage funds froze. ETFs are more transparent [and still provide liquidity albeit a discount] so you can see exactly what's ...

Opportunities and threats amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
The spread of COVID-19 has seen a dramatic turn in the global economy; where earlier this year growth was almost tangibly real, now a downward trajectory towards deep recession seems much more likely. But one asset manager believes there is both opportunity ...

Chief economist update: A whole new world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Daily reports of the rising number infections and fatalities from COVID-19 are matched only by tightening restrictions on social interaction and the ever-increasing amount of money released from government and central bank coffers. How wide and far-ranging ...

Will COVID-19 infect mortgages and RMBS?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020
... subsequent shutdowns have sparked warnings from some not to forget the lessons of 2008 - especially, don't underestimate mortgage defaults. Thomas J. Barrack, a US private equity real estate investor and founder and chair of Colony Capital, this ...