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Bluestone targets the smaller end of town

HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007

Bluestone Group is striding into more new territory with the announcement that it is establishing a new lending arm servicing the self-employed, sole traders and professional investors in the $10 billion commercial property market. The group has established ...

First SEQUAL approved broker

NICK OLIVER | WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007

... impact pensions or Centrelink payments," said Murray. According to Kieren Dell, executive director of SEQUAL, the reverse mortgage market has more than doubled in the past 18 months and accreditation courses endorsed by SEQUAL would underpin healthy ...

ANZ to offer Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages

HAMISH MADDEN | TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006

The Over Fifty Group has just announced that it will begin piloting a reverse mortgage product with the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ). ANZ will begin offering Over Fifty Group reverse mortgages as soon as today in selected areas as part ...

BankWest and ABN AMRO win Best of the Best reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006

... Best of the Best award for reverse mortgages sold by banks while ABN AMRO won the award for the best non-bank reverse mortgage. Macquarie and CommBank came in second and third for the banks while Bluestone and the Over Fifty Group came second and third ...

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 ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006

Australia's stop-start superannuation reforms in the last decade, that have focused more on choice rather than actually boosting savings, have cost hundreds of billions of dollars in missed savings opportunities and we are only now starting to catch ...

Don't bury reverse mortgages in regulation: Martin

HAMISH MADDEN | WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006

... retirement by helping them to access their own illiquid capital. He added that if the obsession with regulation and reverse mortgage doom and gloom continued the industry would be dead in the water, denying seniors an important option for financing their ...

Reverse mortgage regulation lacks cohesion

HAMISH MADDEN | TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006

Regulation is one of the key talking points around the equity release and reverse mortgage industry, but the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) conference last week heard that no one body yet has the jurisdiction to regulate ...

Bluestone crossing the Tasman for NZ equity release

HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006

... in need of equity release solutions and he expected the market to develop strongly. "We expect the New Zealand reverse mortgage market to develop strongly, as consumers increasingly consider their home as a financial asset which needn't necessarily be ...

FSR style licensing regime for mortgage brokers

WWW.THESHEET.COM | MONDAY, 23 OCT 2006

... protection. Anyone in government would tell you that. We know that levels of financial literacy are low." The $1 billon reverse mortgage market has attracted plenty of attention from regulators in the past couple of years because of its high growth rate. ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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