Painted Into A Corner By High Mortgage Fees

Bank researcher Cannex has introduced a calculator to help consumers work out their exit costs.

Asset-rich Flock To Reverse Mortgages

THE number of asset-rich but cash-poor retirees borrowing against the value of their home to finance spending has doubled over the past 18 months.

Mortgage Calculators Misleading

Loan calculators on the websites of more than 100 bank and finance broking companies are being shut down by the corporate watchdog because they are misleading.

Counting Beans

Where does all the money go? Keep track with personal finance software. Helen Bradley reports.

Cyber House Rules

Avoid interest-rate blues using helpful finance sites, writes Judy Adamson.

Easy Money

The personal finance explosion has run smack bang into the Internet revolution. The result? Managing your money will never be the same again. From trading shares to paying bills, if it's related to money, chances are you can do it on the Web, write Daniel Fallon and Nick Galvin.

Surviving The Mortgage Maze

Choosing the best package to purchase a home is now so complex that one business has produced its own calculator to simplify the process. David M. Walker looks at the result. THE dream of "home sweet home" can turn into a living nightmare when inexperienced home and mortgage hunters con

Virtually A Home Loan

Cut out the talk, get better deals and secure lower rates with Internet finance. Ever present and ready to roll, the Internet has been a boon for technologically-savvy consumers. Borrowing big money over the Internet posed no problem for this bunch of mortgage borrowers (see profiles below), who

Net Benefits Of Home Loans

If you believe the hype, the way of the future for those chasing a home of their own is the Internet. James Walker does some site-seeing. Everyone knows that people searching for a home loan no longer have to overdose on cups of tea to get their finance - the days of meeting a bank manager in th

Comparing Loans The Easy Way

YOU are about to buy a house and sign up for a huge home loan. It will dom-inate your budgeting for the next 25 years. There are dozens of loans available, all claiming to offer the best deal, being aggressively marketed by banks, mortgage origin-ators, insurance companies, finance com-panies, credi

It Giant Calculates On Move

Hewlett-Packard, the world's second largest information technology (IT) corporation, is relocating its $100 million calculator business to Melbourne. The deal will see the calculator division headquarters moved to Burwood, creating almost 60 jobs, while manufacturing will be relocated to Asia.

Council 'tag Team' Leaves No Tree Unlogged

Thursday June 6, 1996

Clipboard and calculator in hand, Mr Bryan Bourke, Randwick City Council's tree management officer, stops to inspect a conifer. Item: one Cupressus toralosa. Location: Alison Park. Age: about eight years. Height: four metres. Condition: healthy. Value ... What price a tree? That's the question f

Home A Loan: A Moving Story About Bank Managers

Wednesday July 13, 1994

Armed with a mobile phone, car and calculator, he is on 24-hour call. He makes deals, over coffee and biscuits, at your kitchen table. He does not sell vacuum cleaners, Bibles or encyclopedias; he writes $1 million in home loans a week. Meet Mr Mark Miller, the bank manager of the '9

Compassion V Economic Rationalism

Friday May 6, 1994

The Reworking Australia group is disarmingly frank about the fuzzy figures in its program for getting Australians back into jobs. But the program is, above all, an appeal to the heart, not the calculator. Reworking Australia is a group of concerned academics, church people, professio

Arafat's Plea To Un For Finance

Wednesday September 15, 1993

NEW YORK, Wednesday: The last time Mr Yasser Arafat came to the United Nations, he collected the rapturous applause of the body's non-aligned majority. Yesterday, he was back seeking something more enduring: the world community's financial support for his fledgling Palestinian State.

Why $1.1 Million Is Cheaper Than $825,000 For A Yearling Colt

Sunday April 10, 1988

On the first day of the Sydney Easter yearling sales the most thorough TV report was not in the sports segments. It came in Michael Pascoe's dawn finance show on Channel Nine. And why not? In the past 10 years, the gross from the Sydney sale has soared from $4.4 million to $24 million. Th

Now - The Credit Card That Thinks

Monday April 13, 1987

Magnetised plastic cards which have proliferated to revolutionise shopping and handling finance may be made obsolete by what amounts to a pocket computer. Visa International managing director, Mr Werner Thelen, said his company hoped to have 10,000 copies of the prototype ready for use in