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Aust CPI rises 0.5% in June quarter

Australia\'s consumer price index rose 0.5% in the June quarter, for an annual rate of 2.5%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The CPI was unrevised in the March quarter at a rise of 0.9%. The CPI for market goods and services excluding volatile ...

BankWest appoints Rodger McArthur as managing director

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2004
Western Australian retail bank, BankWest, on Wednesday appointed senior executive Rodger McArthur as managing director, after he spent the past several months as acting MD. McArthur joined the bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBOS Australia (HBOSA) ...

Alternative commission payments banned for all members; IFSA, FPA

Following six months of consultation, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) today announced they had banned all members from accepting or promoting several previously accepted forms of alternative ...

Challenger in talks to sell UK properties for $762 mln: Report

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group is in exclusive talks to sell its British property assets for 295 million pounds ($762 million) in one of Britain\'s biggest commercial property investment deals this year. The Australian newspaper reported that it ...

Court ruling a wake-up for the industry: FPA

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has told the ABC's Inside Business program that the recent decision handed down by the Victorian Supreme Court ruling the Commonwealth Bank responsible for its authorised advisers was a good wake-up call for ...

Increase in insurance premiums far less severe

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
Insurance premiums are continuing to rise, but increases across most commercial classes are far less severe than in recent years, a report by the National Insurance Brokers Association (NIBA) has found. The NIBA analysed June renewals data of its brokers ...

Aust June quarter final PPI rises 1.1%

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
Australia\'s producer price index at the final stage of production rose 1.1% in the June quarter for an annual rise of 2.3%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. This compares with an unrevised rise of 0.6% in the March quarter. In the quarter ...

Strong showing by Fiducian funds

Fiducian Portfolio Services has rated highly on the latest Mercer Investment Consulting ratings, standing out as the only manager to have two funds in the top 13 performers listed in the latest Mercer tables. Additionally, for the second consecutive ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2004
The Australian stockmarket is expected to open weaker as a poor lead from the US and weaker gold and base metal prices look set to weigh on the local bourse. However, domestic influences will be more apparent in the near term as the Australian market ...

Active US fund managers underperform

The majority of active US fund managers have underperformed the major US sharemarket indices for the six months-ending 30 June 2004, ratings agency and benchmark operator Standard & Poor's said in a report. According to S&P, the S&P-500 index outperformed ...