July 2005 (376 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• MCP Employee Handbook
• Corporate Services Name Change
• Your Questions Answered
• Interest Rate Analysis
• Parterships (legal summary)
• Commencing a Small Business
• Partnerships: Avantages and Disadvantages
• Personal Guarantees
• Bank Guarantees: How are they Useful?
• Banks Mean Business for Mortgages
• Other economic News and Group Updates
• Interest Rate Schedule

June 2005 (473 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Interest rate analysis
• Your questions answered
• Legal aspects of financial disclosure statements
• The advantage and the disadvantages of being a sole proprietor
• Property valuations: impact on credit quality
• The Bendigo Bank launches a new seniors product
• Financier news
• Residential property prices: summary of a BIS Shrapnel property report
• Interest rate schedule

May 2005 (295 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Interest rate analysis
• The vendor's statement
• Barristers remain immune from negligence claims
• Popular contract conditions for borrowers
• Why the cheapest mortgage loan is not always the best
• Mortgage insurance products explained
• Stamp duty on commercial Australian property
• Financier news
• State budget overview
• Interest rate schedule

April 2005 (398 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Interest rate analysis
• MCP group news: launch of the MCP Group franchising package
• Your questions answered
• Legal asepct of buying, selling and renewing a franchise
• Main drivers for SME bank switching
• Bridging finance explained
• Banking versus non banking financial institutions
• MCP Group company news
• Interest rate schedule

March 2005 (563 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Interest rate increases & current money market information
• MCP group news: launch of the business finance package
• Your questions answered
• Debt collection industry guidelines
• Legal requirements of record keeping
• Heights controls in residential areas
• Small business and banking: is it changing?
• Monthly versus fortnightly and weekly loan repayments
• Financier news
• Interest rate schedule (15 March 2005)

February 2005 (376 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Interest rate news
• Why directors need a will
• Garantors and borrowers
• Registering a business name at the ASIC

January 2005 (432 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Trade marking a colour
• Lodgement of the notice of acquistion at the SRO
• Finance broking contracts
• FTRA requirements
• Reverse mortgages revisted
• Advantages and disadvantages of incorporating a company

December 2004 (920 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Commercial finance - growth of the intermediary market
• Abolition of BAD (bank account debits) tax
• Legal aspects of business succession agreements
• Property valuations for lending purposes
• Shareholders agreements

November 2004 (545 kb)

Key Feature Articles:

• Legal aspects of buying and selling a franchise
• Contract of sale of real estate: The “cooling off period”
• Fixed loan break costs explained
• Explanation of “add-back” expenses
• Liability of directors of corporate trustees