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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
The national accounts released yesterday show that Australia's GDP grew at only 0.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis. The increase in GDP was a consequence of an increase of 0.5 per cent in final consumption expenditure, 0.3 per cent in private ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
Recent commitments by the state governments of NSW and Victoria to increase spending on infrastructure have been added to by cash rich Western Australia which has announced that as a result of a record 22 per cent increase in annual exports to $47 billion ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data released yesterday revealed a 0.6 per cent increase in the seasonally adjusted value of retail sales in July to $18.1 billion, largely as a result of a 7 per cent increase in department store sales which accounted ...

Peet's res property syndications now a $4.6 billion portfolio

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
The 111 year old residential property syndication group, Peet Limited, has achieved a record annual profit driven by land syndications in Victoria and WA that brings their total portfolio size to $4.6 billion. Peet said the solid results were achieved ...

Snowball to snap up Western Pacific

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Financial planning group Snowball has announced it plans to complete the purchase of Western Australian based financial planning group Western Pacific Financial Planning, a move which comes after Snowball acquired an initial stake last year. Under the ...

MDRT shifts staff to meet regional focus

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
As part of a restructure outlined earlier in the year, Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) has announced several staff movements to bring the organisation into line with its new regional focus. Australian chairman, Ross Vanderwolf, will step into a new ...

Advisor charged with $1.5m fraud

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
An advisor has been charged after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation found that he allegedly defrauded almost $1.5 million from investors. Financial advisor Antonio Pisano appeared in Armadale Magistrates' Court ...

Merrill Lynch appoints BDM for WA

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has appointed a new business development manager for Western Australia. Phil Barker, formerly state manager for AMP Capital Investors, will take on the role of state manager (WA) and be responsible for sales ...

St.George to re-hire lenders as contractors

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
In move that would provoke uproar if applied to financial advisers, St.George Bank will offer to transition some of its non-branch mortgage sales force in Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria to independent contractors restricted to selling only ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
Continued good jobs growth of 150,000 over the last quarter, the second most healthy increase on record, caused overall employment to fall to 4.8 per cent, the lowest level since 1976. Employment rose by 50,700 in July - 27,100 were full-time jobs and ...