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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2005
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer as a solid lead from the US is expected to offset weaker precious and base metal prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index contract was nine points firmer at ...

Machiavellian Macville gets prison term

A former financial planner and adviser from Queensland was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after being found guilty of six fraud charges. Robert Pierre Macville funnelled client funds of around $470,000 into his own private company Macville ...

Daily Economic Update

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates on hold following its final Board meeting for the year 2005. The Australian central bank last raised interest rates in March taking the cash rate from 5.25 per cent to the current ...

TMIC takes on the mortgage insurance duopoly

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2005
The Mortgage Insurance Company (TMIC) is set to enter the mortgage insurance duopoly and challenge the stranglehold of PMI and Genworth. TMIC is a captive insurer of mortgage insurance provider Mobius Financial Services. Yet the firm, which operates ...

FPA chief exec Kelly resigns

The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has started the search for a new CEO, after Kerrie Kelly announced her resignation only two years after taking up the position in 2003. Kelly will leave the FPA in March to take up another CEO role ...

MBA apprentices to learn financial literacy

Apprentice builders will be taught financial skills under the umbrella of the Financial Literacy Foundation. Mal Brough, Assistant Treasurer, said the Foundation and the MBA have a deal that will see a pilot program targeting 200 apprentices, sub-contractors ...

Challenger then Deutsche Bank, the HSBC journey continues

HSBC Asset Management Private Investment Group (AMPIC) has been passed from Challenger Financial Services (Challenger), onto Deutsche Bank (Deutsche) following its March acquisition. AMPIC came under Challenger's control, as part of a broader take over ...

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 ...