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CommBank customers tough to please and getting tougher

CommBank customer research has reportedly revealed that their customers are tough to please and getting tougher. Commonwealth Bank managing director Ralph Norris said the bank recently commissioned two reviews, one of sales and service and the other ...

Long term returns key to super

The latest Intech Super Survey shows that average returns in the past 20 years remained strong despite the 1987 market crash, early nineties recession and the tech bust. According to Intech, the median growth super fund returned 8.9 percent per year ...

Interest rates stay steady

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates steady following its 1 November Board meeting. The central bank does not issue an accompanying statement when it leaves monetary policy unchanged. The official cash rate has remained at 5.5 per ...

ASIC comes down on financial services fraud

A former director of Sydney financial services business, Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, has been sentenced to eight years jail after being found guilty of fraud worth $2.2 million to fund a personal gambling habit. Craig John McKim pleaded guilty ...

BankWest continues its march east

To continue its eastward march, the growing WA regional bank has signed a deal with 7-eleven convenience stores to roll-out 350 branded ATMs up and down the eastern seaboard. East & Partners report in their latest market update report that BankWest ...

CPA Aust and ICAA issue comprehensive new adviser standards

CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Australia (ICAA) have jointly issued significantly enhanced Financial Advisory Standards. Chris Benson, CPA Australia's Manager of Financial Planning says the new standards are necessary because ...

Growth-Style Equities strong third quarter: Morningstar

Australian equities' performance is still buoyant for this financial year, according to Morningstar's league tables of major wholesale fund categories. The tables tracked performance to 30 September 2005 and revealed that Equities performance has continued ...

Weekly Economic Roundup

Inflation and interest rates continued to be the dominant theme at last week's financial market trading activity in Australia. A surprise jump in US headline consumer price inflation - and its implication for more aggressive interest rate hikes by the ...

Daily Economic Roundup

Domestic economy - The latest National Australia Bank (NAB) business survey showed that business confidence dropped to 1 in the third quarter - the lowest since the first quarter of 2001 - from 2.8 in the previous three-month period. The fall in confidence ...

NZ Super Fund buys more sustainable assets

The New Zealand Super Fund (NZSF) continues its push into the sustainability sector after buying a 12,000 hectare forestry estate from Mirvac's New Zealand Sustainable Investments Fund (NZSIF). James Fielding Funds Management (JFFM), the funds management ...