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Adler appeal dismissed

The criminal court of appeal dismissed an appeal by former HIH director Rodney Adler for a permanent stay of criminal proceedings brought by ASIC. Mr Adler was committed to stand trial in July 2003 for criminal proceedings involving three counts of ...

AGEST lines up managers for its alternative funds

AGEST has appointed Quellos and Warakirri Asset Management to manage its absolute return fund. AGEST has allocated $11 million each to Quellos and Warakirri with a total of 22 million to manage the absolute return fund. Wilshire will manage the superannuation ...

Breast Cancer and Heart disease top insurance claims

Breast cancer is one of the highest insurance claims for Aviva Australia. According to Aviva the average number of annual claims for breast cancer now makes up 27 per cent of the insurer's claims. For the insurer this means more than $8 million in payments ...

Australian consumers on spending spree: survey

Australian consumers have spent $17 billion according to the Cashcard Retail Activity Index for September. The cashcard retail activity index grew by 0.5 per cent during September following growth of 0.6 per cent in July and August. The seasonally adjusted ...

African Development Bank mulls five year inaugural $A bond

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2004
African Development Bank (AfDB), the development bank for the African continent, today said it was mulling an inaugural Australian dollar Kangaroo bond with a likely five-year maturity and a minimum size of $200 million. The bank, which is in Australia ...

APRA grants first superannuation licence to REST

APRA granted REST Superannuation its new registrable superannuation entity (RSE) license. The license was granted under APRA's new superannuation licensing regime for superannuation trustees. "I am very pleased that the REST Trustee is the first RSE ...

Small cap managers outperform: van Eyk

Small cap fund managers continue to outperform benchmark returns index but this may not be sustained, according to a report by van Eyk Research. "All the managers reviewed with long enough track records have outperformed the small cap index in the three ...

Adele Lloyd to take over as Adelaide Bank chair in 2005

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2004
Adelaide Bank will appoint South Australian businesswoman Adele Lloyd as its new chair when current chairman Dick McKay retires in October 2005. Lloyd initially joined the board in 1997 but resigned in January 2000 because of business commitments in ...

Aust job vacancies fall 14,600 in August qtr: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2004
Job vacancies fell 14,600 to 117,600 seasonally adjusted in the August quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said while in other figures released today, the bureau said retail sales improved just 0.2 per cent, or $36 million, during August. ...

Macquarie prices $750 million PUMA Masterfund Series B issue

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2004
Macquarie Securitisation today announced that the $750 million PUMA Masterfund P-10 Series B bond issue was priced yesterday. Macquarie Securitisation is the manager of the PUMA residential mortgage backed securitisation programme. The Class A senior ...