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Why first home buyers are jumping straight into property investment

It has been increasingly difficult for first home buyers to get their foot on the property ladder over the past year, ...

Financial services employment trends in 2017

Technology is not only changing the way the financial services sector interacts with clients, but how it operates internally ...

How to attract and maintain relationships with referral partners

Referrals are the bread and butter of broking. The relationship we have with our referral partners is so crucial to our ...

Victorian first home buyers set to win – or are they?

The Victorian state government's announcement that from 1 July first home buyers in Victoria will not have to pay stamp duty ...

Two ways to manage a team for higher performance

Like so many of us in modern business, William Muir, an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University, was interested in ...

Focus on cyber security from the start

As financial services firms continue to innovate, cyber criminals are presented with new avenues of attack – which means ...

Business 101 — you're only as good as your last performance

Ever since we were young, we’ve been given advice.

My top 5 tips for 2017

For many brokers, 2016 was a challenging year. Changes in credit policy were plentiful, with banks interpreting APRA’s ...

What can we do to help first home buyers?

Federal MP Andrew Broad’s recent ill-considered suggestion for banks to lend 100 per cent of the purchase price to first home ...

The truth behind Melbourne’s apartment oversupply

Despite reports to the contrary, an oversupply crisis is not looming over Melbourne’s property industry.

Faster credit decisions with real-time technology

Credit providers will need to embrace newer technologies and real-time data processing in order to meet changing client ...

Dwelling approvals bounce but don’t expect it to continue

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) November 2016 building approvals data, there were 17,569 houses and ...

If you want a great credit score, stop loan shopping

Enquiry listings on credit files are a BIG. RED. FLAG. to lenders.

How on earth did ‘peer-to-peer’ lending become so popular?

Unless you’ve been too busy writing business to read any articles since 2010, you would have heard of the term peer-to-peer ...

Rentvesting

As a representative of Gen Y, I will be the first to put my hand up to admit that I am incredibly demanding and I want ...

Opportunities abound with open data

There has been much debate recently about the use of open data in financial services, with government and industry alike ...

Back to basics

At this time of the year, business owners are naturally reflecting on the successes, failures and lessons of 2016 and setting ...

How to make database magic with Excel

The Christmas break may be the best time for professionals to freshen up some of their processes in preparation for the new ...

Staffing v Systemisation — getting the most out of your business

If you are still heading to a printer more than one or two times a day then you seriously need to think about reviewing not ...

Creating wealth: Australians must take the power back

The figures are damning. Despite 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth, the Australian dream of home ownership or even ...

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