23 February 2012
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Perpetual ramps up cost cuts
Banks 'tricks customers into vicious debt cycle'
23 February 2012
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Queenslanders snap up Brisbane investments - with an even split between unit and house purchases
23 February 2012
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Refund Home Loans to sell to State Home Loans
23 February 2012
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RBA warns prudent mortgage lending vital in housing downturn
23 February 2012
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Hewison Blog
Future of Financial Advice reforms to restrict accounting advice for SMSFs
16 Feb 2012
By Glenn Fairbairn Director/Private Client Adviser In recent months there has been a lot of discussion regarding the Governments ‘Future of Financial Advice’ (FOFA) Reforms. The proposed banning of commissions and the requirement for advisers to get retail clients to opt-in (or renew) their advice agreement every two years, from 1 July 2012, has attracted a lot of media attention. However, another hot topic which seems to be growing legs as we fast approach 1 July is the removal of …
Sovereign Defaults part of our global DNA
12 Feb 2012
By Nathan Lear Director/Private Client Adviser We continue to hear that European countries are on the verge of sovereign debt default - Spain, Portugal, Italy and Ireland to name a few, and of course more recently, Greece. Will this spell the end of the financial world as we know it? It seems almost every day we wake up to a new bout of European sovereign debt fears.
We must however, not forget that events such as the current European debt crisis are nothing new. The world has seen …
Property - it’s simple really
06 Feb 2012
By Simon Curtain, Director/Private Client Adviser
Research released by the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) last week has revealed that the medium house price in Melbourne fell by around 5 per cent last year.
Only 5 per cent? What happened to the bursting of the property bubble and the warnings of a disastrous decline of 30 – 40 per cent in property prices? Well, as we expected, it did not occur.
What needs to be remembered is that the property market, like all other financial …
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