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IRESS seals $48m VisiPlan deal

Wealth management software provider IRESS is set to double its revenue base after announcing it will acquire listed group IWL's software arm VisiPlan for consideration of 5.95 million IRESS shares, around $48 million. Following the deal, IRESS will ...

CPA Australia and SEQUAL team up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
Accounting body CPA Australia has worked with the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) to develop a new guide for members who are advising clients on reverse mortgages. Kath Bowler, CPA Australia financial planning policy ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
The peak body for mortgage and business finance brokers, the Mortgage and Finance Association of Australia (MFAA), may be forced to rewrite its membership rules if the competition watchdog upholds a complaint. The MFAA, formerly the Mortgage Industry ...

MEB warns on reverse mortgages

Members Equity Bank, the bank owned by super funds, has warned consumers against using reverse mortgage products, claiming that financial planners will use equity release-type products to boost their incomes. Trowbridge Deloitte conducted a study last ...

Daily Economic Update

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2007
The half yearly reporting season of the Australian stockmarket begins this week with a general expectation that good earnings numbers are on the table. Among the larger players to report is Woolworths on second quarter earnings and sales for the first ...

First SEQUAL approved broker

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Western Australian mortgage broker Pauline Murray, of Horizon Mortgage Planners, has become the first Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) accredited mortgage consultant in Australia. Murray received the accreditation after ...

More global, more professional: FPSB

The Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), the umbrella body that offers Certified Financial Planners (CFP) certification, is undergoing a major system overhaul that will benefit CFP-accredited financial planners by making their accreditation recognised ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
Evidence of the softening of consumer demand comes with the latest sales of new motor vehicles data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which shows that on a national seasonally adjusted basis sales grew by only 2.9 per cent. The most growth occurred ...

FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006
Mortgage brokers can expect to face a new licensing regime as early as next year that will align regulation of the mortgage broking industry with rules that prevail in the financial planning industry. Ian Clyde, chair of the Uniform Consumer Credit ...

Reverse mortgage sector picking up pace

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
In the first comprehensive study undertaken on the Australian reverse mortgage industry, actuarial firm Trowbridge Deloitte reported that the sector had doubled its value in the last 18 months as the reverse mortgage products gained traction. The study ...