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Sherry will keep his job despite super blooper: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
Labor's retirement incomes and savings spokesman Nick Sherry would keep his job despite bungling a pension plan announcement, Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Senator Sherry this week apologised for an $8 billion mistake in the opposition's ...

Australian Agricultural Co reports net loss

Australian Agricultural Co Ltd today booked a net loss for the first half of the current financial year, with costs associated with the drought and with an acquisition attempt weighing on its earnings. AACo said its full year earnings guidance remains ...

Four NAB currency dealers suspended

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2004
National Australia Bank has suspended four foreign currency dealers over unauthorised trades that resulted in losses of up to $180 million. The trades, believed to have begun in October last year, were only discovered yesterday, culminating in an emergency ...

HFA Group releases results of advisor survey on absolute return funds

Australia's financial advisors are confident equity markets will continue to improve over the coming year, but see a growing role for absolute return strategies to protect investors' from potential market falls, according to HFA Research, a division ...

Junior dealer permanently banned by ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned junior dealer Amber Joy Phelps, of Queensland, from acting as a representative of a dealer or a representative of an investment adviser. Ms Phelps was engaged as a junior ...

Nearly half of all Australian employees not happy with their jobs

In the 2003 Seek Survey of Employee Satisfaction and Motivation in Australia almost half of employees were not happy with their jobs, with 49 per cent of employees responding that they were unhappy or very unhappy, compared with just 25% of employees ...

NAB survey reveals ongoing strength of the non-farm economy

In its latest monthly business survey, the National Australia Bank (NAB) has said that its survey results for the month of July reflect an ongoing strengthening in the Australian non-farm economy, even after taking into account the element of seasonality. ...

Westpac warns customers against hoax site

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2003
Similar to the ANZ announcement earlier today, Westpac Banking Corporation has advised customers to ignore emails requesting confidential information following the detection of a 'ghost' Internet Banking site located in the US. Some Westpac customers ...

AIA survey reveals increase in online trading

In a survey of its members, the Australian Investors' Association (AIA) has discovered that many investors are using the internet extensively for share market transactions, suggesting they are only using stockbrokers and financial planners as a source ...

Babcock and Brown purchases $2.5 million of Biotech shares

International investment company Babcock and Brown has purchased 5.6 million shares of Biota Holdings, it has announced. The company's inaugural foray into the Australian biotechnology sector involves the purchase of $2.5 million worth in shares (7.5% ...