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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2006
The IBES database of analyst estimates of future company profitability has revealed that 2007 is expected to show an average increase in profits of 15 per cent, expected to slow to 5 per cent the following year. This follows earnings growth of 21 per ...

Australians clueless on super

The raft of education campaigns around superannuation are yet to make their impact on consumers after a new study found that 60 per cent of Australians don't know how much fees they pay on their super while 16 per cent couldn't name their own super ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
The Director General of the 140 member World Trade Organisation, Pascal Lamy, has moved the deadline for several key countries to accede to opening up their agricultural markets more to March of next year following frictions at the Cairns round of 18 ...

Adelaide Bank targets growth through wealth management

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
Retiring Adelaide Bank chief executive, Barry Fitzpatrick, said the bank will aim for greater revenue diversification by ramping up the wealth management side of the business. Fitzpatrick's report in the bank's annual report, released yesterday, reveals ...

ASIC bans building insurance broker

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned former insurance broker Dennis Murvan Gentry, of Collingwood, Victoria from providing financial services for five years. ASIC found that Gentry engaged in dishonest and misleading ...

Aust Unity integrates and posts solid profit growth

Funds management, health and retirement group Australian Unity has posted a pre-tax profit of $28.2 million for the year ended June 2006, up 42 per cent from $19.8 million in the previous year. The results included the first full year contribution from ...

Banks to fund consumer IT security: Symantec

Banks may have to pay for the IT systems of their clients if they want to avert the trend where consumers are refusing to transact online due to rampant IT identity theft and sophisticated internet scams. David Sykes, vice-president of Symantec's Pacific ...

Advice scam nets accountant 8 years inside

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
An accountant who fleeced nearly $1 million from investors through his financial advice business has been jailed for eight years. Piet Walters was found guilty of 14 charges of dishonesty relating to $972,000 given to his Drury Management business in ...

ASIC bans ex-Genesys adviser

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned financial adviser, Mark Leigh Clifton, a former authorised representative of Genesys Wealth Advisers, from providing financial services for 10 years. Clifton was a NSW-based authorised ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2006
The Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index rose 12.5 per cent to a score of 101.2 following a 16.2 per cent fall after the last interest rate rise. The improvement in the index is being seen a s a consequence of the improvement in petrol ...