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Melbourne Biotech group wins Chinese investor

Melbourne's reputation as a biotech investment hub continues to grow with the recent awarding of a $3 million investment from a Chinese company to Melbourne based herbal medicine and therapeutic science group R&D. The agreement is between RMIT University's ...

ING Australia to correct unit pricing errors

ING Australia and six of its major subsidiaries will provide up to $25 million in compensation to affected investors for past unit pricing errors. The company discovered the possible unit pricing errors last May and commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers ...

ASIC rubs out financial adviser

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has imposed a permanent ban on Phillip Bates from providing financial services. Bates was a former employee of the National Australia Bank (NAB) Toowoomba Financial Services Centre but was ...

CSS fraudsters appear in court

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2005
Four men accused of conspiring to launder $150 million defrauded from a super fund for federal public servants have been granted bail in a Sydney court. It is alleged the funds were illegally transferred from the Commonwealth Superannuation Scheme on ...

ASIC shuts down property investment companies

The Supreme Court of Victoria has granted an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) application to have Casey Downs Retirement Villages and Ambridge Retirement Management Services wound up. The order to have the two property investment ...

IRESS and Reuters to integrate order systems

Reuters will team-up with IRESS Market Technology to integrate their order routing networks in a deal which will facilitate order flow from Reuters customers to any IRESS network clients in Australia and New Zealand and vice versa. The Reuters Order ...

AMP Financial Planning's 2005 initiatives

AMP Financial Planning will implement initiatives to simply financial planning by tailoring advice packages to consumers life cycle needs including a comprehensive consumer education. The advice packages called AdvicePlus solutions will provide advice ...

Australian equities remain investors' favourite

Navigator research into fund flows across asset classes for 2004 via the Navigator platform has found Australian shares experienced the largest funds flow boost as a proportion of total inflows. Inflows into Australian share funds in 2004 rose from ...

Guidance on SOAs from ASIC

ASIC has provided guidance on Statements of Advice (SOAs) to help Australian financial services licensees fulfil their obligations under the Corporations Act 2001. The guide is aimed at addressing both content and presentation deficiencies discovered ...

ASIC paves way to better retirement

ASIC has released five free fact sheets to explain the main features of different retirement income stream products in simple terms to assist consumers to plan for their retirement. The fact sheets explain the various types of pensions and annuities ...