Brett McKeon founded AFG in 1994 alongside Kevin Matthews, Malcolm Watkins and the late Brad McGougan, running the company until transitioning to a non-executive directorship seven years ago.
Sean Smith
The big four bank’s boss has called for more investment in Australian oil and gas, declaring that ‘fuel security is economic security’.
Adrian Rauso
In a grim warning to mortgage holders, experts say it is just a matter of when before interest rates soar to a 15-year high.
Blair Jackson and Cameron Micallef
The collapse of Sydney builder Bathla Group rings a warning bell for those investing in high income-paying investments, collectively called ‘private credit’ funds. Here’s how to check if your funds are at risk.
Nick Bruining
The Australian sharemarket has fallen despite a strong lead from Wall Street – with miners and energy stocks dragging the market.
Cameron Micallef
The Reserve Bank has warned it still has a job to do on inflation as a Senate inquiry hears younger Australians and first-home buyers are bearing the brunt of rate hikes.
Ria Pandey and Cameron Micallef
The double whammy hit of higher interest rates and the Federal Government’s property tax shake-up have brought mortgage applications to a three-year low.
Cheyanne Enciso
Hundreds of thousands of Australians will get a slice of a $249m settlement following a class action against Commonwealth Bank and two fund managers.
Blair Jackson
Australians are promised $1.6 billion in surcharge savings but rewards cardholders with the big four bank face higher rates, fewer perks and weaker insurance. Here’s everything you’re about to lose ...
Ryan Johnson
Fallout from scandal-plagued KPMG is growing after one Aussie bank opted to dump the consultancy firm as its preferred auditor.
Emma Kirk
Australia’s inflation battle is moving in the right direction – but economists are warning mortgage holders should still brace for the worst news.
Documents containing explosive allegations of secret commissions, tax avoidance and misuse of client funds at KPMG have been tabled in parliament.
National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Irvine has urged the Federal Government work with business and move faster to lift productivity by embracing AI — or risk entrenching low growth.
More than seven in every $10 exposed to scams at Bankwest involved customers aged over 55.
From takeaway spending to 20 per cent deposits and home equity, Perth mortgage broker Bianca Patterson explains the home loan rules borrowers still get wrong.
The Perth-based mortgage bellwether behind one in nine Australian home loans says borrowers pulled back after the Budget, but upgraders are starting to venture back in.
Australia’s financial crimes agency has identified co-ordinated mortgage fraud that could reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars following a review of the country’s major banks.
Richard Henderson
Australians struggling to put together a cash deposit for a bank loan are turning to this novel method to secure a mortgage.
Australia’s largest retail bank has unveiled a new loyalty program tie-up with Virgin in an apparent slight to Qantas, and also expanded points accumulation beyond credit cards.
Rebecca Le May
Westpac boss Anthony Miller is confident Australia’s property market will withstand interest rate hikes and a tax shake-up but says the country must build more homes to improve affordability.
Matt Mckenzie & Ryan Johnson
Australia’s prudential regulator has tightened its grip on an Aussie bank, imposing licence conditions over failures, including money laundering issues.
WA businesses are still borrowing billions to expand despite higher interest rates, with Commonwealth Bank declaring it the best-performing state in its business lending division over the financial year.
NAB’s troubled mortgages jumped $150 million in three months as higher rates and Labor’s tax changes helped drive a 15 per cent slump in home-loan demand.
All four of Australia’s big banks have now recorded the same trend in home loan applications in the past several months.
