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S&P places DDF rating on watch positive

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2004
Standard & Poor\'s Ratings Services on Wednesday placed its BBB-plus long-term ratings on Deutsche Diversified Trust (DDF) on CreditWatch with positive implications, following DB Real Estate Australia and Deutsche Asset Managements proposal to Deutsche ...

ING Industrial Fund ready to build scale to lift earnings

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2004
ING Industrial Fund (IIF) said today it is well positioned to leverage off its robust platform to find further opportunities to lift earnings. ING\'s Industrial Fund (IIF) today announced a 20% increase in operating profit to $102.1 million for the ...

Embezzlement more common but scams hurt most; report

Embezzlement accounts for almost half the incidence where retail investors have been defrauded by their financial advisers while unauthorised trading contributes one third of incidence, according to a new report conducted by Tepana Associates. In a ...

Trust to offload equity custody business to ANZ

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2004
Financial services group Trust Company of Australia said today it had entered into an agreement with ANZ Banking Group to offload its equity custody business, which would generate a one-off profit of around $2.5 million this financial year. The company ...

WAN shareholders unlikely to support any merger with Fairfax

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2004
West Australian Newspaper Holdings shareholders would be unlikely to support any merger with John Fairfax Holdings given that the economics of a merger at current prices would be difficult to justify, Credit Suisse First Boston analyst Finola Burke ...

NAB picks up corporate and institutional clients -analyst report

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2004
National Australia Bank appears to have staunched the bleeding in its corporate and institutional divisions harmed by the $360 million foreign exchange scandal and is starting to pick up new customers. According to East & Partners\' latest report, NAB ...

Increase in insurance premiums far less severe

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
Insurance premiums are continuing to rise, but increases across most commercial classes are far less severe than in recent years, a report by the National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) has found. The NIBA analysed June renewals data of its brokers ...

ANZ staff contracts misleading, union says

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
About 13,500 ANZ workers were being duped by unenforceable employment contracts, the Finance Sector Union said on Thursday. The contracts state that the ANZ may change an employee\'s position, their duties, location and working hours, given reasonable ...

FSR complexities will be resolved: Sen Cameron

Speaking at the Financial Planning Association Sydney Chapter lunch this week, Senator Ross Cameron said the current disclosure requirements contained in Statements of Advice are too complex, consumer unfriendly and too long. Against the background ...

Speculation grows NAB ready to sell UK assets

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2004
National Australia Bank (NAB) appears more open to selling its United Kingdom banks and could receive an offer before the end of 2004, according to a Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) report. Australia\'s biggest bank has been wrestling for most of ...