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Unit pricing not always best: Buttler Walker

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Despite the push to make unit pricing the standard for how super funds report investment returns, interest rate based approaches can be just as robust, argue actuaries Buttler Walker. In a just released comment paper, Buttler Walker said, "It is important ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
The Australian stock market was trading lower at noon after a sharp fall in metal prices hit resource stocks, and cancelled out a positive lead from Wall Street. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index lost 8.4 points to 5428.3, while the all ordinaries ...

Banks take a softly, softly approach to electronic banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... rules a customer who wants to increase a credit card limit or change the terms of a mortgage from a variable to a fixed interest rate will be able to do so by email. But Moran said lenders will be cautious about sending out mortgage contracts via email. ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... of Australia (RBA) releases its quarterly statement on monetary policy as it explains the reasons behind last week's interest rate rise. Elsewhere, Lion Nathan and Orica release annual results and Queensland Gas Company has its annual general meeting ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
The major retailers were still struggling in the wake of this week's interest rate rise. At 1224 AEDT giant Woolworths had shed 20 cents to $20.68, Harvey Norman four cents to $3.74 and David Jones three cents to $3.37. Coles Myer was steady at $13.79. ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

A kingdom for my castle

Home-owners could benefit from a new web service www.sellmycastle.com.au which allows them to describe their property online and invite real estate agents to bid for the sale contract, a novel European-based concept that was launched in Australia this ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... LONDON - Britain's FTSE 100 index eased from five-and-a-half year highs as mortgage lenders struggled to shrug off an interest rate rise and drugmakers weakened on the outcome of US federal elections. The index of Britain's leading shares closed down ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Yesterday's rise in interest rates takes the total to five rate rises since 2002, totalling 2 per cent, and the fourth since the last election when Prime Minister Howard promised to keep rates low. As a consequence the average household will be paying ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
... per cent The Australian stock market fell yesterday after a recent record-breaking run, as the central bank pushed up interest rates. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of Australia raised interest rates 25 basis points to 6.25 per cent. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 ...