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Macquarie Bank to purchase US energy assets for $182 million

Macquarie Bank has entered into an agreement to purchase ExelonThermal Technologies, a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, for $US135 ($A182) million. Macquarie Bank said it is to provide acquisition debt and equity for 100 per cent of the purchase price ...

Actuary urges policies to deal with inter-generational pressures

Echoing recent comments from high-ranking government officials, the newly elected president of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, Graham Rogers, has warned Australia faces significant inter-generational issues that will lead to pressures on retirement ...

Another Wattle administrator convicted after ASIC investigation

Graeme Charles Coote, a former director of Brisbane-based The Fund Administrators Pty Ltd (TFA), has been sentenced in the Brisbane District Court in relation to charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Coote ...

ASIC bans Perth investment adviser for 18 months

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today announced that it had banned a Perth-based investment adviser, from acting as an authorised representative of a securities dealer or an investment adviser for 18 months. Following an ...

Melbourne director handed suspended jail sentence

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2003
A company director from Melbourne has been served a suspended sentence in the County Court to serve two and a half years jail, after earlier being found guilty on 19 counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception. The director, Leon Theoharopoulos ...

APRA cracks down on lax regulatory reports

The trustees of over 300 superannuation funds face prosecution following moves by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) to dissolve uncontactable superannuation funds, the industry regulator has announced. The proposed legal action relates ...

Macfarlane optimistic on GDP growth in 2004

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2003
Australia's gross domestic product should grow at 3.5 per cent in real terms over the course of 2003, governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Ian Macfarlane said today. The central bank also expected growth of four per cent next year. The RBA ...

Morningstar rates Citigroup Australia's LPT capability

Morningstar has given Citigroup Asset Management Australia's listed property trust (LPT) capability a rating of three out of five, the research house has announced. Several aspects of Citigroup's profile, including investment team and process, portfolio ...

Worst over for the economy: TD Securities

TD Securities Chief Strategist Stephen Koukoulas has said the latest national accounts confirm that the worst is over for the Australian economy, but the recovery is anything but robust. With the GDP rising 1.2 per cent in the September quarter after ...

Disciplinary board rescinds convicted Sydney auditor's registration

The Companies Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board has cancelled the registration of a Sydney auditor, following an application by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). The Board decided to cancel the registration of Helena ...