Financial advisers in the UK are only now facing the full impact of the global credit crunch – almost one year on - so will they survive or thrive as the wider British economy retracts?
For planners, as with many others in the UK, a major concern is that …
As prices in the UK housing market continue to tumble, more and more cases of mortgage fraud are being uncovered.
However the problem is far greater than a few dodgy brokers bending the rules for their clients – a police intelligence report has found mortgage fraud amounts to £700 …
Australian consumer discretionary spending has changed considerably over the past three months as higher interest rates, rental prices, and petrol prices start to bite.
Many individuals and families have been forced to modify their discretionary consumption behaviour according to new research by CoreData of more than 1,500 Australians.…
About 25% of high net worth individuals in Australia are female – estimates from ABS data and CoreData research show.
These tend to fit into three distinct groups; those who have or had their own business, those who own or owned a business with their husband and divorced, …
Gail Kelly’s recent ‘open letter’ to customers of St. George and Westpac has met with some interesting responses from customers of both banks and the broader Australian public.
It seems, a third of Westpac and St. George customers did not know who Gail Kelly was and more than …
The steam has well and truly gone out of the UK residential property market leaving the industry with a cold chill.
There has been a 64% year on year plummet in new mortgage approvals being written according to figures released by the Bank of England yesterday.
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