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Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... continued improvement in the labour market. And we haven't have had the full impact of the likely further crunch in home lending from the Royal Banking Commission (report due out in February) and the fall-out from the Opal building quality concerns ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... back the principal." Four years after 2018 takes us to 2022, time enough to get our "houses" in order. However, tighter lending restrictions implemented by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and as a result of the Hayne Royal Commission ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... seven years. Pearce said the fund is content with its ESG and has no immediate plans in the area. Emerging markets, direct lending When asked about emerging markets exposure, the chief investment officer said the super fund was looking to allocate to ...

APRA lifts interest-only restrictions

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
Australia's banks can now move back into interest-only lending, and their peak industry body says competition will increase as a result. This week APRA announced it would remove the 30% benchmark for new interest-only residential mortgages, which it ...

Royal Commission sparks risk book sell-off

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... price paid was more than 3.5 times recurring revenue, Radar Results said. Unfortunately for the smaller players, tighter lending has seen a number of Australia's banks increase the minimum loan amount for such acquisitions to $1 million. Radar Results ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed that its €2.6 trillion asset ...

Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... new direction. In February 2017, Centrepoint entered a convertible note and option deed with NEOS Life, with Centrepoint lending the startup $5 million which could be converted to equity at any time before February 2022. If the debt was not converted ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... developments will continue. "With the property market already going through difficult issues with the banks tightening on lending, limited access to interest only loans, and a general downturn in the property market, many potential investors are probably ...

CBA investigates possible privacy breach

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... determine whether loan applications were approved or denied. CBA denied this, saying CommInsure information does not inform lending decisions, either automated or manual. The potential breach was identified as part of data segregation work undertaken ...

Former planner charged with dishonesty

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... three companies he was the sole director of and a superannuation fund administered by Ostrava. According to ASIC, Thrive Lending, Trade BTC and Beta Pharmacology all received funds from the SMSFs of Grimm's clients. Additionally, the corporate regulator ...