Browsing all articles from September, 2006


Investors are stuck between a rock and a hard place with many fearful of jumping out of poorly performing equities and into property.

It seems the impact of eight consecutive rate hikes since 2005 has reduced the attractiveness of gearing up to enter the property market – added …

Financial advisers in Australia may be receiving more calls from their more affluent clients of late, with indications high net worth investors (HNWIs) have not been left unscathed from the recent market woes and turmoil.

Qualitative research by CoreData has revealed that there are HNWIs out there who …

Three out of four Australians deem the recent supplementary rate increases of the banking industry ‘unjustified’.

Consumers, it seems, are not just miffed about having to pay higher costs on their loans but the fact few of the banks have communicated the reasons for the rises – leaving …

The UK property market, arguably one of the more aggressive markets over the past decade in terms of investor and home owner appetite to take on debt has turned a corner.

Yesterday, Abbey, Britain’s third-biggest lender became the last bank to offer 100 per cent mortgage products.

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