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Australian equities may under-perform as a result of rising interest rates

The Australian equity market is likely to under-perform other markets over the coming year as a result of the fact that the Australia has been the first major economy to begin a tightening cycle. QIC senior economist Beverley Morris said there is historically ...

Victorian Court dismisses Dotnet director's appeal

The Victorian Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of Andrew Geoffrey Thomson, a former director of a number of dotcom companies including Dotnet Ltd and Hotlinks Internet Services Pty Ltd Mr Thomson appealed against the sentence imposed on 20 August ...

ASFA strongly argues in favour of a cut in super contributions tax

The elimination of the 15 per cent contributions tax on super in next year's budget would benefit the economic wellbeing of Australians and the nation as a whole, than another minor income tax cut, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds ...

Cicutto reappointed as NAB chief

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2003
National Australia Bank Ltd has reappointed chief executive Frank Cicutto for another three years, continuing recent moves by the nation's other big banks to hold onto current leadership. Mr Cicutto will stay on until October 2006 with his annual base ...

Westpac announces lowering of merchant credit card fees

Westpac has today announced that it will reduce credit card merchant service fees to its 85,000 merchant customers. "We are writing to our customers advising them of the new lower Merchant Service Fees applicable to them, the benefits of which will ...

S&P research reveals turnover frequency of funds impacts long-term returns

In recent research conducted by Standard and Poor's in the US of 15,000 domestic mutual funds, it was ascertained that funds with a lower than average turnover had outperformed their high turnover peers in all nine domestic fund styles on a three and ...

Superannuation assets jump in June quarter: APRA

The value of Australian superannuation assets recovered strongly in the June quarter, and now stands at record levels, according to latest data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). But APRA said most of the rise was due ...

Industry fund takes strong stand on corporate governance

Unisuper has instructed its investment managers to vote on any corporate governance resolutions of Australian companies in which it invests, under a new set of guidelines adopted by the fund. As part of Unisuper's corporate governance policy, the fund ...

Labor marks Anti-Poverty Week with new proposals

The Federal Opposition Labor party will mark Anti-Poverty Week with a commitment to convene a national summit on poverty and inequality and set targets for income, employment, health, education and community services as part of a whole government strategy ...

ASIC releases FSR relief applications overview

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today released an overview of its decisions regarding recent applications for relief from licensing, conduct and disclosure provisions of the Corporations Act 2001, as amended by the Financial ...