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Morning Market Wrap: Caution ahead of data releases

... Banking Group, while TD Waterhouse releases an inflation survey and the October Australian Industry Group / PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing index is expected to be released. By 0641 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December ...

Some CLERP rules "excessively prescriptive"

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Some rules contained in the CLERP 9 legislative package were "excessively prescriptive", PricewaterhouseCoopers chief executive Tony Harrington warned today. The federal government's proposed changes to corporate laws were announced yesterday. "In general ...

Manufacturing business conditions mixed in September: survey

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2003
... production growth little changed as employment fell, a survey found. But the Australian Industry (Ai) Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMITM) showed new orders posted an encouraging rise. PMITM rose to 53.0 in September ...

Australian manufacturing up 1.1 points in July: Ai Group/PwC survey

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2003
... survey has found. The Performance of Manufacturing Index, compiled by the Australian Industry (Ai) Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers, rose 1.1 points in July to a seasonally adjusted 50.5. Without strong auto activity, the Australian PMI would have recorded ...

Challenges ahead for wealth managers: survey

... growth. The survey of private banks/wealth managers in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore was conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The consultant found that many organizations were still unclear in terms of how to outperform market growth. "Organizations ...

NAB appoints new director to board

National Australia Bank Ltd (NAB) has announced that former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) joint managing director John Thorn will join its board as an independent non-executive director in October. NAB chairman Charles Allen said Mr Thorn's skills and ...

Business confidence to slow in the months ahead: AIG-PwC survey

... months may be tested by the reality of softening economic conditions, the Australian Industry Group (AIG) & PricewaterhouseCoopers' June quarter survey of Australian manufacturing has revealed. AIG deputy chief executive Heather Ridout said the report ...

ASIC funding boost could reveal 20% solvency problem rate: PwC

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has predicted that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) will discover solvency problems in over 20 per cent of Australian companies following the Federal Government's decision to provide $3 million ...

Home loans sector driving major bank profits: PwC

... 6 per cent on the corresponding 2002 period, and 4.5% up on the previous half, according to analysis by PricewaterhouseCoopers. "Results were driven primarily by the home loans sector, supported by cost containment and improvements in bad debt expense," ...

ASIC cracks down on insolvent trading

... the company does not trade while insolvent. ASIC has been working with senior insolvency specialists from PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst&Young in both Sydney and Melbourne, through its newly formed National Insolvency Coordination Unit (NICU), to target ...