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Henry Financial Group joins Genesys

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Financial Planning Association (FPA) director Leonie Henry's advice business, the Henry Financial Group, has joined the Genesys Wealth Advisers network. Brisbane based Henry Financial Group has been in business for 20 years but Leonie Henry said moving ...

Don't bury reverse mortgages in regulation: Martin

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... industry was at risk of being buried before it had a chance to sprout. Speaking at the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) conference last week Martin, chief executive officer and managing director of the Over Fifty Group ...

Ban default super funds: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called for default super fund selections to be banned because they block consumers from developing customised retirement strategies. Speaking at the first day of public hearings in Sydney for the Parliamentary ...

Reverse mortgage regulation lacks cohesion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
... talking points around the equity release and reverse mortgage industry, but the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) conference last week heard that no one body yet has the jurisdiction to regulate the sector as a whole. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... November. Analysis by Professor Bob Birrell of Monash University in tandem with the Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Association has found that thousands of medical practitioners are entering the country without the assessments that were originally ...

FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
... planners. Clyde, who was speaking in Sydney at a conference organised by SEQUAL (Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders), said legislation could be ready next year. "The Consumer Credit Code is based on the idea of truth in lending," ...

Not-for-profits need to engage with industry: IFSA

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Speaking at the Catholic Social Services Australia Conference on Wednesday, Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive officer, Richard Gilbert, urged the not-for-profit sector to get more involved with industry to help underpin ...

Reverse mortgage sector picking up pace

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... double the $459 million at the end of 2004. Kieren Dell, executive director of the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL), said the trend was a sign of things to come. "Reverse mortgages are steadily growing as a retirement ...

AFA launches its new website

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has unveiled a new website with major restructuring and upgrades to better provide for member information needs. Paul Riegelhuth, chairman of the AFA website committee, said the AFA site had been redesigned ...

Westpac appoints new REIT manager

... completing the funding arrangements for the trust's $100 million seed property portfolio bought from the Defence Housing Association. This consists of 178 residential properties in the ACT, New South Wales and Queensland. "In terms of potential size ...