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Bogus Insurance Broker pleads guilty

Marcus Anthony has pleaded guilty in the NSW Central Court to fraud and operating as an unlicensed insurance broker. Mr Anthony was alleged to have acted as an insurance broker without and agent without holding a license, misappropriated client funds ...

Over 17 years' gaol for Bo Long investment scheme operators

ASIC has announced the sentencing of Donna Ho to nine years' gaol with a non-parole period of three years after she pleaded guilty to nine charges of dishonestly using over $1.5 million of investors' money, and the sentencing of Mark Sweeney to eight-and-a-half ...

Beware the cold calling con artist

ASIC has advised investors to be wary about unsolicited phone calls or emails offering high returns on shares or other investments after the number of complaints the regulatory body received about the practice doubled in August and September 2004. The ...

MacarthurCook Mortgage Fund reaches $360 million

The MacarthurCook Mortgage Fund (MacarthurCook) has achieved a level of $360 million on the back of strong sales results including $15 million of inflows in August and a further $18 million of inflows in September, consolidating the fund's accomplishment ...

Financial planner pleads guilty to fraud

Former financial planner Mr Robert Andrew Street has pleaded guilty to five charges of obtaining financial advantage by deception in the Melbourne County Court following an investigation by the ASIC. The fraud took place between September 2001 and August  ...

Australian consumers on spending spree: survey

Australian consumers have spent $17 billion according to the Cashcard Retail Activity Index for September. The cashcard retail activity index grew by 0.5 per cent during September following growth of 0.6 per cent in July and August. The seasonally adjusted ...

Qantas announces $1.9 billion bank facility

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2004
Qantas Airways Ltd today announced a $1.9 billion bank facility, slightly lower than its intention to refinance $2.1 billion. Qantas chief financial officer Mr Peter Gregg said the refinancing had been launched in August and was heavily oversubscribed ...

AMP to return capital to shareholders within 10 months

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2004
AMP Ltd will reward almost one million shareholders with a capital return within the next 10 months, AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl said today. The plan to distribute some of the rejuvenated financial services group's growing cash pool was flagged ...

Record month for 30-day IR futures contract: SFE

September was the busiest month on record for trading in the 30 Day Interbank cash rate futures contract, the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) said on Thursday. The total monthly volume of 100,914 traded contracts was a 55 per cent increase on the previous ...

Aust job vacancies fall 14,600 in August qtr: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2004
Job vacancies fell 14,600 to 117,600 seasonally adjusted in the August quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said while in other figures released today, the bureau said retail sales improved just 0.2 per cent, or $36 million, during August. ...