January 22, 2018

Reverse mortgages are loans for pensioners and retirees that are designed specifically for older borrowers who are typically ‘asset rich’ but ‘cash poor’. Known variously as ‘senior’s loans’, ‘reverse home loans’, and ‘senior’s finance’, reverse mortgages are the most popular form of home equity release in Australia. This financial product will allow people from the

Read More

December 20, 2017

Research from global wealth and retirement consultant Mercer shows that more than 60% of retirees face a looming crisis of running out of money before they die. Most Australian seniors only have enough savings to last 14 years beyond retirement and may outlive their savings by five years. So if you don’t have enough savings

Read More

November 9, 2017

By the time you retire and decide to stop working, your income will be greatly affected as well as your lifestyle. You will lose your regular income stream from your salary, and you have to rely on age pension, or if you have managed to invest early on, you can access your superannuation funds. But

Read More

September 19, 2017

If you are born in or after 1966, you are a candidate for the new pension eligibility requirement that will take effect in 2035. By that time, you need to be 70 years old and above in order to be eligible for age pension. If you don’t have access to additional source of income, that

Read More

August 13, 2017

Since it was introduced a decade ago, reverse mortgage has received a lot of expectation. People who were approaching retirement saw reverse mortgage as an additional retirement funding option, but still, the interest in the product was low because of high interest rates. With a home loan, you take a lump sum loan and repay

Read More

July 25, 2017

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) recently released an infographic to explain the regulator’s review of the mortgage broking market and understand the effect of current remuneration structures on the quality of consumer outcomes. The review reveals that mortgage brokers are paid an average of 0.54% or $2,700 for a $500K home loan. It

Read More