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Tower Australia closes annuities portfolio to new business

... adoption of a multi-manager approach to its Australian equities portfolio. The latest moves follow the sale of the trans-Tasman insurer's New Zealand trust business in August, and an earlier $NZ 211 million ($A188 million) equity raising.

AFA announces inaugural adviser of the year

The Association of Financial Advisers and Zurich Financial Services Australia have announced that Bernie Toohey, managing director of Central Highlands Financial Services is the winner of the inaugural Zurich Adviser of the Year award. Mr Toohey has ...

Tasmanian adviser faces 110 ASIC charges

A former financial adviser from Sandy Bay, Tasmania, appeared today in the Hobart Magistrates Court on a total of 110 charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). ASIC alleges that between July 1995 and May 2003 Mervyn ...

Australian population grows 1.3% to 19,875,000: ABS

The population of Australia increase by 1.3 per cent for the past year to 19,875,000 people at end of the March quarter 2003, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The increase was 262,000 over the previous year, with the highest growth ...

Unemployment rate dips 0.4% to 5.8%: ABS

The latest labour figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the nation's unemployment rate dipped 0.4 per cent from 6.2% in July 2003 to 5.8% in August 2003. The labour force participation rate has risen in that period ...

ACCC reject proposed air alliance, airlines to appeal

... public," ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said. For some time the airlines have been the only effective competitors of the trans-Tasman route, Australia's largest passenger market. Qantas wanted to be allowed to take a 22.5 per cent stake in Air New Zealand ...

Virgin Blue responds to watchdog air alliance decision

... Blue said today the Australian competition watchdog's decision to deny approval for an alliance of its two major Trans-Tasman competitors helped clarify its future plans. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today said there was ...

Job advertisements rise 1.5% in August: ANZ job advertisement series

The number of job advertisements in major metropolitan newspapers rose by 1.5 per cent in August, to an average of 21,081 per week, the highest level since February and 0.3% higher than in August last year. "The modest upward trend in job advertising ...

ASIC investigation leads to Tasmanian director ban

The Supreme Court of Queensland has banned Garry Raymond Howes, a former Tasmanian solicitor and director of the failed company Gold Ribbon (Accountants) Pty Ltd (GRA), from managing a corporation for five years. The ban follows an investigation by ...

Trans-Tasman tax changes implemented under CER agreement

Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, has committed the government to trans-Tasman triangular tax reform, exchanging formal letters with Jim Anderton, the New Zealand Minister for Economic Development. Triangular taxation ...