Is your interest-only loan about to end?
It’s the end of the road for 900,000 borrowers on interest-only loans, as they’ll be automatically switched to principal and interest loans this year. Now’s the time to check whether or not you should start considering other options. Back in 2014-15...7 school holiday ideas that won’t break the bank
We’re midway through January and you’ve managed to stay sane. Well, we hope so anyway! Here are seven budget-friendly ideas that’ll help keep the kids off their screens throughout the last two weeks of school holidays. If you’re increasingly...The Downside of Recent Credit Card Reforms
In June this year, there was a general announcement that there would be fairly significant reforms to all credit cards. What ensued was an uncertain and garbled series of explanations about what it meant for credit card holders and most of us not in the financial...
Bank wanted mortgage broking fees transferred to customers
A big four bank almost overhauled its broker remuneration model so that the cost of mortgage broking services would be transferred to the customer, the royal commission heard. Here’s how to prevent that from happening. The Royal Commission recently revealed that...