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Economic round-up: Hey big spenders

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
... Department stores have been enjoying a four month trend of strong growth in sales across Australia, with only Western Australian shoppers backing off a little in March. Everyone, except those living in Western Australia and Tasmania, seems to have lost ...

Members covered for fraud but not bad investments

The troubles of a Western Australian-based super fund should serve as a stark warning to super fund members who blindly contribute money into their super without understanding how their funds are invested. Strategic Capital Superannuation Fund (SCSF) ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
... price index contract rose 31 points to 6363. Today, the ABS will release labour force data for April, while the Western Australian state budget is to be delivered. In share market news, National Australia Bank will release half year results. Construction ...

Public equity under pressure

... undervalued or being a potential takeover target, they are willing to take a punt on," he said. For example, Western Australian Newspapers saw its PE multiple reach as high as 49 times in the last year compared to a low of 16 times and Adelaide Bank ...

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 ...

Houses at half price

... new range of products designed to address the lack of housing affordability in the country. In February, the Western Australian Government announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30 to 40 per cent share in home ownership ...

FPA member fined and expelled

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
... Financial Planning Association (FPA) has expelled a member in the continuing fallout from the Westpoint disaster. Western Australian planner Annemieke de Boer of Centro Financial Synergy was charged with 35 breaches of the FPA's Code of Ethics and Rules ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

First SEQUAL approved broker

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Western Australian mortgage broker Pauline Murray, of Horizon Mortgage Planners, has become the first Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) accredited mortgage consultant in Australia. Murray received the accreditation after ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
While the Western Australian Government is expected to announce a revised estimate of the State budget above the $1.27 billion already forecast from the May budget, a survey by BankWest and the WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry found that in all 16 ...