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RBA expected to hold rates, but hikes will come

Australia's effervescent economy will force interest rates to rise soon but most economists think the Reserve Bank will wait for further evidence of a global upswing before hiking rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has kept rates on hold for ...

STOPS Fund to transfer to CARE Super

The $17 million Shipping and Travel Officers Productivity Superannuation Fund, (STOPS) plans to transfer to CARE Super, the not-for-profit super fund catering for office-based employees, in November, it has announced. STOPS chairman Bob Crabb explained ...

ACCC initiates legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
The competition watchdog said today it had started legal proceedings against get-rich-quick seminar leader Henry Kaye and the National Investment Institute Ltd (NII). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has alleged Mr Kaye and ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
Australian life insurer AMP Ltd is leaning towards returning ownership of its struggling British assets to shareholders rather than selling them off, a source close to the talks told Reuters on Monday. "At the moment it looks like the demerger is the ...

Midday market wrap: Japanese stocks rise to fresh highs

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2003
... overnight and was pounded against the yen as the market continued to test the resolve of the Bank of Japan for intervention to stop the yen strengthening. All Ordinaries 3238.8 +13.8 NASDAQ 1909.55 +26.45 Dow Jones 9659.13 +113.48 FTSE-100 4314.70 +21.70 ...

ANZ chief slams ACCC over EFTPOS decision

FPA calls for full disclosure on Risk Products

... representatives," Mr Breakspear said. "This is especially pertinent when both risk and investment products are delivered under the one stop financial advice provider." Commission rates for different risk products range from 30% to 120% and have the potential ...

Government will keep negative gearing: Costello

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2003
... negative gear they put a tenant in and what it's actually doing is making housing available for tenants," he said. "If you stop that, there will be less tenanted houses around and rents will go up." Mr Costello yesterday said state governments could ...

Too many defects in prospectuses: ASIC

... Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The industry regulator said defects in offer documents prompted it to place 89 stop orders in 2002/03, covering $383 million in proposed new raisings. Malcolm Rodgers, ASIC's Executive Director Policy and ...

ACCC launches policy to expose hard-core cartels

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has launched a leniency policy aimed at exposing and stopping secret corporate cartels operating in Australia. "Hard core cartels are the very worst violations of competition law," departing ...