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Former Adelaide adviser joins Wattle Group guilty party

Ian William Snook, formerly an investment adviser and principal of Golconda resources, has become the latest person to be convicted in the Wattle Group saga, after pleading guilty to 62 charges in the District Court of Adelaide. The Australian Securities ...

John Fairfax leaves Westpac Board

Westpac Banking Corporation's chairman, Leon Davis, has announced that John Fairfax would resign from its Board, effective 1 September 2003. He said Mr Fairfax decided to resign after seven years on the Westpac Board. Mr Fairfax will continue as Chairman ...

Viaticorp introduces Life Investments industry to Australia

Life investments - a capital-stable, non-volatile asset class with historical returns of up to 18 per cent - are now available to Australian investors for the first time, Viaticorp Group has announced. These investments - strong performers in the US ...

S&P announces new index additions

Equity market index provider, Standard & Poor's, today announced three new additions to major Australian share market indexes. As of 2 September, Alinta Limited will be added to the S&P/ASX 100 index. Skilled Engineering Limited and ARC Energy will ...

Federal court approves schemes of arrangement for BankWest

The federal court has approved the schemes of arrangement by which HBOS plc takes over the shares it does not already own in Bank of Western Australia. Justice Robert French today approved schemes of arrangement for BankWest, which proposed by 57 per ...

Wattle director pleads guilty to 48 charges: ASIC

Anscor Pty Ltd director Anne Shirley Corbett has pleaded guilty, in the Brisbane District Court, to 48 charges of being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests, in contravention of the Corporations Act. These charges followed an ...

US growth strengthening, but risks remain: IMF

The expansion in US economic activity will gather momentum in the latter half of 2003, according to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) latest review of the US economy. The Fund said US GDP growth should rise from just under 2.5 per cent in 2003 ...

National Exchange, David Tweed in court over OneSteel offer

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has won a court action temporarily preventing National Exchange Limited, and David Tweed, its sole director, from making further unsolicited offers to shareholders in OneSteel Limited, or from ...

Former NTI managing director sentenced to 18 months imprisonment

Trevor Gregory Smith, a former managing director of National Transport Insurance Ltd (NTI), has been sentenced in the Southport District Court in relation to 13 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Smith ...

Morning market wrap: Power blackout hits US share price futures, supports bonds

US stocks finished higher overnight, although a power outage across large parts of the eastern US and Canada sent share price futures lower after the close of the regular trading session. US bond yields also fell sharply with the blackout, although ...