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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2005
The Australian share market will likely open little changed today with investor attention turning to further earnings reports from local companies after a subdued performance on Wall Street overnight. It will take little for the market to hit a fresh ...

Weekly economic roundup

The Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Wage Price Index were among the major statistics released last week. The Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity rose by 2.9 per cent ...

REST teams up with Money Solutions to provide financial advice

The Retail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST Super) has partnered itself with Money Solutions to provide financial planning and educational services for its members. The financial advice will be available to all of REST Super's 1.5 million members ...

Weekly economic roundup

The Reserve Bank of Australia finally put interest rate speculation to rest last week. In his half-yearly parliamentary testimony, RBA Governor Ian Macfarlane reinforced the message from the Quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy released by the Australian ...

Macquarie's LPTs set to go from strength to strength

Macquarie Bank's Property Investment Management Division has released results for the year ended 30 June 2005 showing its range of listed property trusts (LPTs) produced an average return weighted by market capitalisation of 37.5 per cent. The top performers ...

New compliance director for ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has appointed Carole Ferguson to the newly created role of director institutional and wholesale compliance. Ferguson joins ASIC having most recently been Colonial First State Investments' senior ...

New group executive roles at Promina

The Promina Group has formulated changes to its group executive management team whereby six members will manage and own the Promina's activities across the group. The executive team comprises Michael Wilkins as CEO and managing director, Roger Bell ...

Finance Industry Council of Australia formed

A new financial services body called the Finance Industry Council of Australia (FICA) has been formed with its members being made up of some of the industry's leading professional associations. FICA's aim is to facilitate higher level responses to the ...

Challenger wins Funds SA $70m mandate

The Superannuation Funds Management Corporation of South Australia, Funds SA, has awarded a $70 million mandate to the Challenger Financial Services Group. The mandate has specifically been given to the Challenger High Yield Fund. This fund uses high ...

Former RetireInvest franchise joins IRIS dealer group

Former RetireInvest dealer network, now established as IRIS Financial Group, has joined with another former RetireInvest franchise, 'Retirement Tasmania' increasing its funds under advice (FUA) by 20 per cent. The merged group will now include 30 authorised ...