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Apollo expands in Australia, acquires fund manager stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
Apollo Global Management announced it will take a 50% stake in an Australian commercial real estate fund manager. New York Stock Exchange-listed Apollo will become part owner of Melbourne-based MaxCap Group but did not disclose how much it paid for ...

Superannuation complaints down 31%: AFCA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
Member complaints about superannuation to AFCA fell 31% in the year ending 30 June 2021, after a spike in FY20 stemming from the early release of superannuation allowed during the pandemic. AFCA did not provide a breakdown of complaint types for superannuation ...

Homebuyer schemes speed up saving time

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... shows. Commonwealth Bank data shows customers have bought property on an average of 4.78 years faster using the First Home Loan Deposit Scheme (FHLDS) or New Home Guarantee (NHG). CBA customers in NSW saved an average of 5.05 years followed Victoria ...

Criminal charges filed against ME Bank

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... occurred between 2 September 2016 and 3 September 2018. In a statement, ME Bank said the alleged contraventions concern home loan customer communications and arise from issues reported to ASIC in October 2018 and addressed via remediation in 2019. Remediation ...

Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
Ahead of tomorrow's federal budget, the government announced a raft of measures aimed at increasing home ownership levels, including the expansion of the First Home Super Saver Scheme. The government is increasing the maximum amount of voluntary contributions ...

ANZ profits up 45%, dividends double

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... release is a result of the improving economic outlook over the course of the half, as well as some loan volume reductions. Home loan and small business consumers have also behaved prudently by building savings buffers through the half," ANZ said in May ...

Atlas Wealth launches mortgage brokerage

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... said: "Over the past five years we have seen ANZ, Westpac and NAB, who have been the traditional expat mortgage and home loan providers, reduce their offering to Australian expats but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to secure a home loan ...

Catholic Super bank implements Temenos

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
Catholic Super's bank MyLife MyFinance has implemented Temenos' digital banking platform replacing its legacy system. Temenos said the implementation reduces the bank's complexity by moving all processes and data to one core system, Temenos Transact. ...

Former Wallaby departs Westpac for NAB

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
... build on the momentum we are seeing in our broking business as we remain focused on delivering Australia's simplest home loan and strengthening our position as the bank behind the broker," Kerr said. "Phil's passion for customers, and success driving ...

Super for house deposits will push up prices: ASFA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... Australia currently does allow people to use voluntary superannuation contributions more than SG rates, to be used for home loan deposits under the First Home Super Saver Scheme (FHSSS) announced in 2017-18 budget. ASFA said as at September end, FHSSS ...