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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 ...

ESS and SSF super fund talks deadlocked

Union representatives are deadlocked in talks with the Victorian government over the proposed merger of the Emergency Services Superannuation Scheme (ESSS) and the State Superannuation Fund (SSF) amid their concerns members' defined benefits might be ...

Economic roundup

The latest survey on Australian consumer and business confidence released last week ran counter to the strong GDP, good employment results and earlier reports of solid capital investment plans. This acted to reinforce the mixed messages from economic ...

Host-Plus accepts undertaking from ASIC

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has accepted an enforceable undertaking from the trustee of the Host-Plus superannuation fund, Host-Plus Pty Ltd (Host-Plus). The enforceable undertaking relates to future projections outlined in ...