Consumers are being courted with yet another inducement to take on debt in the home loan war – as if the uncertain prospect of further rate rises later this year and an unnerving property market weren’t enough.
The best available numbers suggest there are about 6.3 million Australians who fall broadly into the category of mass affluent – and who by a large stand to benefit from using a financial planner.
The latest buzz phrase in UK financial services is ‘factory gate pricing’ – meaning a price reflecting the cost of production and prior to distribution and marketing costs being added.
So a non-marketed pension product offered via a nil commission structure…
Financial services companies spend an obscene amount of money every year on branding yet when it comes to financial advice the only brand most consumers are aware of is that of their adviser.
Gambling they say is a mugs game, yet it seems this is what a company with the self proclaimed name of ‘Mortgage Watchdog’ is encouraging consumers to do.
The group sells a software program that alleges an almost certain probability of…
A key indicator of economic development in industrialised countries used to be the growth in household fixed line telephones – in China it is the mobile phone and numbers of investors.
The stock market bounce in February is but a distant…
