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AMP releases demerger plan

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2003
... $430 million in May. AMP expects its profit growth in Australia to come from higher operating margins in AFS and lower corporate office costs, which include about 100 job cuts. AMP's British operation is also currently in the process of cutting more ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar strong after volatile night

... vehicle sales data. In NEW YORK, Technology stocks edged up on Thursday on the back of upbeat economic data and a strong corporate earnings season, but tepid forecasts from heavyweights like International Business Machines Corp and Caterpillar Inc kept ...

Australia highlights support for ongoing APEC meeting

... group of APEC economies to fast track implementation of agreed trade facilitation measures. And this includes APEC's corporate governance pathfinder which is being developed through the finance minister's process. Its aim is to encourage greater participation ...

Morning Market Wrap: Market to ease on flat lead from US

... two-day rally to a 16-month high on the TOPIX index, as investors took profits on bank and real-estate shares ahead of corporate earnings and George W Bush's visit to Japan. The Nikkei average ended down 0.61 per cent or 66.48 points at 10,899.95. All ...

Australian Rugby Union added to BT corporate super's new mandates

BT Financial Group (BT) has revealed it experienced a bumper September quarter, with 15 new corporate superannuation mandates won over the three months, totalling $185 million in funds under administration. BT said its new mandates include a $67 million ...

Westpac named Australia's number one company: RepuTex

Westpac has been named Australia's number one company, receiving the only AAA rating for corporate social responsibility in the RepuTex Social Responsibility Ratings (SR) announcement, at a National Press Club event in Canberra. "We are very much driven ...

Morning Market Wrap: Lacklustre lead from US; Dollar starts strong

... the day off, and those who were at work sifted through the first few quarterly earnings scorecards for fresh clues to corporate America's health while looking ahead to next week's full flood of company reports. General Electric weighed on the blue-chip ...

ASX welcomes proposed fines

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
The Australian Stock Exchange has welcomed a federal government proposal to give the corporate regulator the power to fine companies who fail to keep markets properly informed. Under proposed changes to corporate laws announced yesterday, the Australian ...

Some CLERP rules "excessively prescriptive"

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... prescriptive", PricewaterhouseCoopers chief executive Tony Harrington warned today. The federal government's proposed changes to corporate laws were announced yesterday. "In general, while the proposed legislation marks a positive step for Australia ...

Lenders could withstand substantial housing correction: APRA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
... (ADIs), to "proceed with caution". "Broadly speaking, these results are reassuring," Dr Laker told a Securities Institute corporate briefing. "They demonstrate that the ADI sector...remains well capitalised and could withstand a substantial housing market ...