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Up to 70% of Australian workers to get positive super returns: ASFA

Preliminary figures compiled by ASFA indicate that, contrary to the impression gained by some recent reports, the majority of Australian workers will get a positive return - ranging from 1.5 per cent to 4% - on their superannuation for the year ended ...

Morning market wrap: US Shares up, Australian dollar slumps

US shares continued their ascent Tuesday, buoyed by a wave of merger and acquisition activity. Data storage company EMC Corp. announced the acquisition of Legato Systems Inc., while auto parts manufacturer ArvinMeritor Inc. launched a hostile cash bid ...

Westpac warns customers against hoax site

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2003
Similar to the ANZ announcement earlier today, Westpac Banking Corporation has advised customers to ignore emails requesting confidential information following the detection of a 'ghost' Internet Banking site located in the US. Some Westpac customers ...

Government releases draft legislation on asset financing tax reform

The Federal Government has released draft legislation for tax reform of infrastructure and other asset financing for technical comment, following intensive consultation with relevant key stakeholders, the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer ...

Productivity Commission report reveals Government business underperformance

Only one in four Government businesses earned a commercial rate of return over the five years to 2001/02, a Productivity Commission report revealed today. The report also found one in three government businesses failed to earn even the benchmark 5.9 ...

ICI reports US ETFs total $118 billion

The combined assets of US exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in May were US$118.44 billion (A$178.52 billion), according to the Investment Company Institute (ICI), the US investment industry association. The ICI monthly ETF report revealed assets of all ETFs ...

Australian housing less affordable during March quarter

The rising cost of housing is still driving affordability down across the country, according to the AMP Banking/REIA Home Loan Affordability Indicator, released today. The exceptions were NSW and Victoria, where home loan affordability rose by 3.0 per ...

KPMG survey reveals finance companies' 2002 struggle

WITH AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2003
Australia's finance companies were unable to ride on the back of the housing loan boom in 2002, a KPMG annual survey has revealed. Head of KPMG financial services Peter Nash said finance companies included in the survey such as Esanda, CBFC, BMW, RACV ...

Investors warming to shares: ING June quarter report

The latest ING Melbourne Institute Household Savings and Investment report for the June quarter has revealed that investors are slowly warming to the share market and have eased on their enthusiasm for property. It also showed that for the first time ...

Adelaide Bank expresses concern at APRA policy paper

Adelaide Bank has expressed concern at an alleged policy discussion paper that may be released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in the near future; which deals with proposed changes to the capital treatment of capitalised costs. ...