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Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open broadly unchanged as another benign day on the US markets provides little direction for the domestic bourse. However, with the Australian market still awash in activity with earnings and annual general ...

Virgin in bed with big Macq

Virgin Money Australia inches closer to its goal of becoming a top player in retail financial services after Macquarie Bank bought a 10 percent stake in the business and offered to bankroll new Virgin Money products. Macquarie Bank has said that it ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

A former director of Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty ...

Economic Roundup

Increased volatility continued to be the name of the game during last week's financial market trading activity. Inflation and its attendant consequence on monetary policy - read higher interest rates -- remained the major cause for recent investor trepidation. ...

ESS and SSF super fund talks deadlocked

Union representatives are deadlocked in talks with the Victorian government over the proposed merger of the Emergency Services Superannuation Scheme (ESSS) and the State Superannuation Fund (SSF) amid their concerns members' defined benefits might be ...

Fincorp returns $21m to investors

Financial services watchdog ASIC has required finance company Fincorp to return up to $21 million plus interest to more than 1,000 investors of its 2004 prospectus, due to misleading and omitted information in the document. The Supreme Court of NSW ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2005
The Australian share market is likely to open slightly weaker as a fall in oil prices and a weak overseas lead is expected to weigh on the domestic bourse. Still, with some stock-specific news expected today, there could be some gains in particular ...

CSS fraudsters appear in court

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2005
Four men accused of conspiring to launder $150 million defrauded from a super fund for federal public servants have been granted bail in a Sydney court. It is alleged the funds were illegally transferred from the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme on ...

ASIC releases super switching study results but FPA not satisfied

The Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC) has released the findings of its assessment of financial advice to consumers wishing to change superannuation funds in the lead up to the introduction of choice of fund legislation. The study ...

Virgin set to enter employer super arena

Virgin Money has launched a new superannuation fund for employers called Virgin Super for Business on the back of the popularity of its earlier retail super offering. The new product is aimed at providing a simple, low cost superannuation fund that ...