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Westpac breaks up consumer and business banking

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
Westpac has announced a split in the structure of its Australian Business and Consumer Banking (BCB) division. Westpac chief executive officer, David Morgan, said BCB will be split into two new divisions, Consumer Financial Services and Business Financial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to keep the cash rate on hold at 6.25 per cent following its meeting yesterday. This may be seen as a consequence of the continued economic signals that the economy is neither starting to boil nor stagnating. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... pressure on the RBA to raise the cash rate when next it announces its interest rate decision this Wednesday. The Australian business community has formally acknowledged the need for increased corporate social responsibility with the Business Council ...

AXA Rosenberg firms its footing in Oz

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2007
... a former institutional marketer for Citigroup Asset Management Australia, will help build AXA Rosenberg's Australian business alongside recently appointed portfolio manager Kabeh Jahromi. The beefed up team is headed up by Doug Burton, director of investments ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... threatens agriculture and GDP generally. Following the Australia Business Roundtable call for early action, the Australian Business Council now supports carbon trading. Globally, cuts of 60 per cent in green house gas emissions are needed to avoid dangerous ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
The release of the latest national accounts data shows that the seasonally adjusted final consumption expenditure measure of GDP grew by only 0.3 per cent over the last quarter to take the annual tally to 2.2 per cent. Positive or negative contributions ...

Family banned by ASIC and AFSL revoked

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... (AFSL) revoked following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Australian Business Insurance Advisers (ABIA) was a family business operated out of Adelaide by directors and husband and wife Terence Franke and ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to increase interest the cash rate by 0.25 basis points to 6.25 per cent saying that it took note of the likely economic effects of the drought on farm and national income. The RBA said that domestic demand ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
... Tower announced its shareholders have approved a demerger of its Australian and New Zealand businesses. The Australian business, Tower Australia, will list as a separate entity on the Australian Stock Exchange on November, 21 if court approval for the ...

BlackRock expands distribution team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
... Merrill Lynch and uniting the businesses under the one banner. Underpinning BlackRock's strategy of growing the Australian business and product range, the company has announced two internal promotions and three executive appointments. As part of the ...