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Victorian insurance agent gets three years for theft

Former insurance agent Joseph McNeany has been sentenced to three years in jail on 20 charges of theft...

Morningstar gives five stars to Perpetual's mortgages management

Morningstar has given Perpetual Investment Management a five star Mortgages Sector Strength Rating...

Rural confidence improving slightly: Rabobank

The prospect of an improved 2003 season is positively influencing sentiment among Australia’s farmers, with rural confidence continuing to climb gradually in the first quarter of the year...

Newspaper job ads rise by 8.1% in May, but disguise downturn: ANZ

The number of jobs advertised in the major metropolitan newspapers in Australia rose by 8.1 per cent in May to an average of 20,109 per week...

Midday market wrap: National falls by 3%

The All Ordinaries index was helped to a slight loss during the morning session by a 3 per cent fall in National share prices, pushing the stock down to $32.85...

Treasury Group appoints Peter Kennedy to its board

Peter Kennedy, a senior partner of Madwicks Lawyers, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Treasury Group...

Westpac signs up to social and environmental principles

Westpac Banking Corporation has joined nine leading banks from seven countries by adopting the “Equator Principles” – a voluntary set of guidelines that have been developed for managing social and environmental issues...

House prices rise by 3.4% in March quarter: ABS

House prices in Australian capital cities rose by an average of 3.4 per cent in the March quarter...

Assirt gives 'strong' rating to new external BT managers

Assirt has given a ‘strong’ rating to both AEW and BlackRock after BT appointed them as external managers...

RBA hints at interest rate cut due to international downturn

If the international economic situation does not improve soon the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) could be forced to cut interest rates...