Lenders split on interest-only loan strategy
ING is withdrawing some interest-only loans while Newcastle Permanent, the nation's biggest building society, is slashing rates by 30 basis points.
Gooch to chair Hunter Hall LIC
Milton Corp managing director Frank Gooch will be the next chairman of Hunter Hall Global Value.
4 of the 5 most respected US shares are tech disrupters
Technology dominates our lives, rules the current sharemarket and commands, for now, the esteem of America's professional investors.
Depreciation change 'trifling'
The timing and extent of plant and equipment investment should not be driven by how you optimise a tax break.
Airbnb is popular, but renting out your car?
Personal vehicles, which are also near the top of the list of many people's most expensive assets, are even more underused than homes.
Vanguard actually is good at what it does
Vanguard's been likened to communism, but what could be more capitalistic than products competing in the marketplace for customers on qualit...
How Alex Vynokur built a $4b ETF empire
Alex Vynokur arrived in Australia in 1994 without a word of English, ended up working for Malcolm Turnbull and now runs a fund manager that ...
SMSFs turn to unlisted property
Double-digit yields are encouraging a switch from houses, apartments and offices into unlisted property trusts.
The real cost of dying
The death of a loved one can be hard enough to deal with without the extra worry about the cost of carrying out their wishes.
Bankwest hikes lending rates by 76bp
BankWest has hiked interest rates for principal and interest-only home buyers in the latest twist to lower the risk of bad debt.
