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ASIC bans unlicensed Westpoint adviser

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) banned Gold Coast based, Russell Sheppard from providing financial services for eight years after the regulator found he provided unlicensed advice on Westpoint products. The regulator found ...

House prices volatile but chance of big fall lesson

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... large falls in the market has decreased, said Rismark International's head of research, Dr Mathew Hardman. "Areas in the West and South West of Sydney have fallen 20 per cent since 2003, but the decline has been consistent over a significant period ...

BankWest's recruitment drive on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... Reid, BankWest head of retail. Reid said BankWest's financial planning division included 17 financial planners on the "west coast" and 10 on the "east coast" across 14 stores nationwide. He said the bank recruited former Westpac employee, Lisa Livis ...

First stop baby boomers, next stop Gen-Y

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... and forget generation, they want to tinker and change their investments," he said. Meanwhile, Salt identified south west coast of Western Australia and eastern coastline as prime location for financial planning firms to benefit from the population and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher today following a positive lead from Wall Street as US stocks rose after the Federal Reserve and other central banks sought to ease a global credit crunch. Metals in London were mixed overnight. ...

Harvard Endowment Fund chief quits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... statement, he said a need to be closer to family was behind his resignation. "With much of our family living on the West Coast, it was important for us to be closer to them," he said in a PIMCO statement. In his two years at HMC, El-Erian re-structured ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
The Australian share market is a sea of green this morning, despite wiping off nearly $60 billion in value yesterday, after US equities shot up shortly before close overnight. US investors picked up shares beaten down by worries over deteriorating credit ...

BankWest goes east

From the west coast to the east coast, leading Western Australian bank BankWest continues its push into markets outside its Perth homebase when it announced that its head of retail sales will relocate to Sydney. Head of Retail Sales Mark Reid will move ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... exploration which may then be exported around the globe. The oil has been found at depths beyond that in the North Sea off the UK coast. The US has about 29 billion barrels of oil which with an annual consumption rate of 20.5 million barrels means that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... spend about US$800 million to build the Cabrillo Port gas terminal off the coast of California. On a related energy issue, West Australia, which has about 80 per cent of the nation's undeveloped gas reserves, plans to retain about 20 per cent of offshore ...