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Property promoter gets life ban and $1.1m penalty

Donald Maxwell, a promoter of illegal mezzanine fund schemes, has been ordered to pay $1.122 million in compensation and penalties and has been disqualified from providing financial services for life. Maxwell was the principal promoter for two failed ...

Stockland opens unlisted shopping centre fund

Shopping centre giant Stockland has launched the first of a series of unlisted shopping centre funds it will offer to retail investors. Called the Stockland Direct Retail Trust (SDRT) No. 1, the fund will house a diverse group of shoping centers including ...

Citigroup taps into migrant banking needs

Citigroup Australia's Global Transaction Services division has this week launched a new retail banking service that will provide low cost and secure remittance facilities for immigrants sending money back to their former home countries. "This is a large ...

Mezzanine finance conman hits Hillsong Church investors

NSW based property developer Robert John Orehek is to face trial on 30 criminal charges brought by ASIC for misappropriating money from investors most of whom were from the Hillsong Church in Castle Hill. Orehek will stand trial on three counts of fraudulent ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
In Sydney, the Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer as a weaker Wall Street offsets strong gains in commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0738 AEST, the September share price index contract was unchanged at 5,020. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
At the Cairns group of 18 agricultural exporting countries, Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
Following on from his comments that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while ...

XPLAN in demand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... XPLAN model continues to gather pace with further growth expected as profitability ramps up. Adjusted profit for the group of $14.2 million was up on the previous half's figure of $11.8 million. But the key figure was XPAN revenues, which rose by 68 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Following on from his comments on the need for discussions about the future of the oil industry at the forthcoming November Group of 20(G20) meeting to be held in Melbourne, Treasurer Peter Costello has added that there needs to be a widening of the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2006
Treasurer Costello has given notice that at the forthcoming November Group of 20 (G20) meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors in Melbourne there will be fertile discussion about the oil market and the need for a stronger institutional ...