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A kingdom for my castle

Home-owners could benefit from a new web service www.sellmycastle.com.au which allows them to describe their property online and invite real estate agents to bid for the sale contract, a novel European-based concept that was launched in Australia this ...

Return to sender costs millions: QAS

The humble mailing address is back in the spotlight as increasing automation of mail-outs means incorrect addresses are costing companies at least $25 million in 'return to sender' costs, and one too many irate customers, according to software firm ...

ASIC cautions over rate rise advertising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
With the recent interest rate rise and another imminent, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has cautioned lenders over advertising and promotional material which may not accurately reflect a rate rise. Already home loan lenders ...

Rate rise drives home loan innovation

The ongoing interest rate rises will have a fundamental impact on the way mortgage products are designed and packaged, said Peter Bromley, general manager at LJ Hooker Financial Services. Bromley said that, "A continuing increase in interest rates may  ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Pressure will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings ...

Former NAB adviser gets 8 years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
A former National Australia Bank (NAB) financial planner has been jailed for eight years for dishonesty and fraud relating to nearly $6 million of misappropriated funds. Following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation ...

Finsia wins fin services education excellence award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Finsia's Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance and Investment has been awarded the Excellence in Education for Financial Services - Higher Education Category Award from the Financial Services Education Agency Australia (FSEAA). The FSEAA Quality Education ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher, despite a dip in US markets on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0727 AEDT, the December share price index contract was up seven points at 5,436. Today, the ANZ Job Advertisement series ...

Reverse mortgages better than starvation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
Reverse mortgage products may not be the ideal product but they are better than starvation, and if they can help someone finally fix that bathroom the quality of life benefits can be huge. "The problem is they can be seen as admission of abject failure ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The recent uplift in consumer sentiment as measured by the Westpac survey has not been transferred into much buoyancy in retail sales, as indicated by the ABS monthly release of the data yesterday. Retail sales grew by just 0.1 per cent in seasonally ...