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Macquarie rolls out new infrastructure trust

The Macquarie Adviser Services on Monday announced the launch of the Macquarie Global Infrastructure Trust II. The trust has been set up to provide retail investors access to global infrastructure investments. Macquarie Adviser Services Division director ...

US interest rates likely to rise as inflation builds, poll finds

US economic growth is chugging along but worries about rising inflation pressures have fueled expectations the Federal Reserve will push up interest rates in the next few months. A Reuters poll taken on Thursday, after the first-quarter gross domestic ...

Nigerian letter scam victim pleads guilty

A Victorian financial adviser has plead guilty to five counts of obtaining financial advantage by deception, following his reply to a person purporting to be a representative of a Nigerian government committee, and a subsequent investigation by the ...

First Mortgage launches mortgage securitisation program

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
First Mortgage Group launched a $400 million residential mortgage backed securitisation issue, for which Macquarie Bank is the arranger and lead manager. This is the second public issue out of the Firstmac Mortgage Securitisation Programme, following ...

Credit binge continues as RBA considers rate rise

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2004
Australians are continuing to borrow heavily for homes and run up debts on their credit cards with new figures out on Friday putting pressure on the Reserve Bank to lift interest rates. The Reserve Bank board meets tomorrow, a month after deciding against ...

APRA raised concerns with NAB before rogue trading scandal

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2004
The banking watchdog raised concerns about National Australia Bank's (NAB) risk management early last year, more than six months before the rogue trading scandal that cost the bank's two top jobs. NAB suspended four currency traders in January but foreign ...

TCorp completes majority of funding program

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2004
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has completed the majority (75%) of its $5.2 billion full-year funding program in the first half of the 2003-2004 financial year. TCorp said it took advantage of favourable funding conditions in the six months to December ...

Full steam ahead for growing BOQ

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2003
Bank of Queensland Ltd continues to steam ahead as Australia's fastest growing bank, reporting its highest sales ever last week despite interest rate hikes and a property market slow-down. Speaking after the bank's annual general meeting in Brisbane ...

Two Victorian accountants face fraud charges: ASIC

Two former Victorian accountants of Corrpro Companies Australia Pty Ltd have appeared in the Melbourne Magistrate Court in relation to fraud charges following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Craig Leigh ...

Credit grows at fastest pace in 14 years

Annual growth in credit has accelerated to its fastest pace in 14 years with housing loans leading the way ahead of personal and business credit, TD Securities Chief Strategist Stephen Koukoulas has revealed. Overall credit rose 1.6 per cent during ...