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Lenders must recognise millennial wealth strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... Investment Trends analyst John Carver said these geared investors are using several methods, the most common being margin lending products. Next is a line of credit secured against home equity and home loan redraw facilities. "These borrowers firmly ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... funding at attractive conditions to banks in order to further ease private sector credit conditions and stimulate bank lending to the real economy. The TLTROs, therefore, reinforce the ECB's current accommodative monetary policy stance and strengthen ...

Advice group rebuilds following regulatory headwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... director Keith Cullen said 2017 changes to superannuation rules and APRA policy moves to rein in residential property lending, as well as the financial services Royal Commission, have amplified a restructure of its salaried adviser business. Cullen said ...

Increase adviser standards sector-wide: FSU

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Sector Union which said a process of professionalisation should extend to other occupations within the sector, including lending specialists, mortgage brokers and business bankers. The imposition of professional obligations, which exist outside employment ...

Aussie banks underestimated difficulties of advice: Hartzer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... subtleties of the financial advice market, as they looked for growth outside of their traditional functions of deposits and lending. "I think banks made assumptions about the way that they went about that business; thought that it would sit neatly within ...

Ganis brings the changes at YBR

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
... changes to support the strategic initiatives of new chief Frank Ganis. The firm is welcoming aboard a new head of its RESI lending arm in Macquarie Group's Michael Abboud, as Ganis looks to "breathe new life" into the business. Abboud is set to be joined ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... 50). According to AiG: "House building respondents to the Australian PCI linked slower activity in October to tighter lending conditions, falling house prices and generally weaker home buyer sentiment. Apartment builders indicated that activity continued ...

Scrapping LRBAs would be detrimental to investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... said. Street says critics of LRBAs often cite the activities of residential property spruikers "to cast a cloud over this lending instrument more broadly." "We fully support ASIC's tough line on property spruikers who prey on the vulnerable by encouraging ...

Banks must reshape to survive compliance and technology crunches

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... policies aimed to increase innovation and competition is starting affect the position of major banks, especially in non-bank lending.

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... that markets widely expected. The ECB left interest rates unchanged - the benchmark refinancing rate at 0%, the marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% and the deposit facility rate at -0.4% - while at the same time confirming net asset purchases of ...