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    CONSOLIDATED LIST OF INTERNET LINKS OF INTEREST TO AUSTRALIAN INVESTORS AND OTHERS (FROM N E RENTON'S BOOKS, UPDATED AND EXPANDED)

    I am sure that some of you have parents and grandparents at home who have found the Internet and the World Wide Web to be a bit of a mystery

    - Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, in March 1997, when launching her official web site

    AUSTRALIAN SHARES

    Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)

    ASX search facility: Past company announcements

    ASX search facility: Recent dividend declarations

    Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE)

    Open briefings of selected listed companies

    Standard & Poor's indices, including the constituents of the All Ordinaries and other Australian indices

    Current figures for the S&P/ASX indices

    Average price/earnings ratios and dividend yields

    Delisted and suspended companies

    Mr Stephen Mayne, a shareholder activist

    Moneybags, a virtual shop specialising in investment books and software

    A one stop finance information portal

    Upcoming floats

    Links to Australian listed companies with web sites

    Australian Securities Exchange: how to find a broker

    A comparison of online brokers

    OVERSEAS SHARES

    New Zealand Stock Exchange

    New York Stock Exchange

    Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (United States)

    A site for analysing US listed companies, Validea

    Information about US listed companies, including analysts' views

    SHARE PRICE INFORMATION

    Trading Room - a Fairfax site which allows investors to get personalised share price and other information:

    • instant prices can be obtained for a fee
    • prices 20 minutes delayed can be obtained free of charge
    • the previous day's closing prices can also be obtained free of charge
    • the value of one or more nominated portfolios can be monitored
    • watchlists of selected stocks can be set up

    Yahoo!

    Medved QuoteTracker - an excellent free program for displaying US, Australian and other streaming real-time quotes and embracing a ticker tape and many other features

    PROPERTY

    Property Council of Australia (PCA)

    Australian Property Institute (API)

    Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA)

    Properties for sale and for lease

    AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission - consumer information

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission - information about reverse mortgages

    ASIC booklet "Getting Advice" (formerly "Don't Kiss your Money Goodbye")

    ASIC search facility: Licence holders

    ASIC search facility: Banned and disqualified investment advisers

    ASIC warning list of unlicensed overseas brokers making unsolicited telephone calls to Australians

    OTHER COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

    Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)

    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) (including GST)

    Australian Taxation Office Register of Binding Private Rulings

    Centrelink (for social security information)

    Department of Health and Ageing

    Home and Community Care (HACC) program

    Australian Government's seniors portal

    Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA)

    Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)

    Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

    Australian Government Business Entry Point (includes ABN search, which also enables confirmation of DGR status)

    Australian Business Register (ABR)

    Australian Government media releases

    Australian Government information and services

    Australian Parliamentary information

    Australian Government publications

    Australian Government online directory

    Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)

    ORGANISATIONS

    Australian Shareholders' Association (ASA)

    Australian Investors' Association (AIA)

    Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA)

    Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA)

    Securities Registrars' Association of Australia (including transfer and other forms) (SRAA)

    Taxpayers Australia

    National Information Centre on Retirement Investments

    Council on the Ageing

    Information about volunteering opportunities

    JOURNALS

    Australian Financial Review (AFR)

    TheBull, a free online magazine

    FatCat, a free online magazine

    GOVERNMENTS

    Commonwealth

    New South Wales

    Victoria

    Queensland

    South Australia

    Western Australia

    Tasmania

    LEGISLATION

    Commonwealth and State legislation and case law (Austlii)

    Commonwealth legislation (ComLaw)

    Income Tax Assessment Act 1936

    Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

    Social Security Act 1991

    Corporations Act 2001

    DICTIONARIES

    Dictionary and other tools

    OneLook - over 1000 different dictionaries

    Babylon - a multi-faceted dictionary

    WordWeb - an excellent dictionary which needs to be installed on the user's computer

    Acronyms

    Links to hundreds of glossaries

    Babel Fish - for translating text and web sites (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese)

    A Latin-English English-Latin online dictionary

    Common Latin phrases

    Word Oddities and Trivia

    FINANCIAL GLOSSARIES

    Australian Securities Exchange

    New York Stock Exchange

    Washington Post

    Barclay Oasis Management

    Global Investor (UK)

    Reuters (this is a wiki)

    COMPLAINTS SERVICES

    Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) (covering complaints against stockbrokers, financial planners, security dealers, fund managers, holders of Australian Financial Services Licences and their authorised representatives, banks, credit providers, general insurance companies and life insurance companies)

    Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) (covering complaints against listed companies and their share registries)

    Insurance Brokers Disputes Limited (covering complaints against general insurance brokers)

    Financial Co-operative Dispute Resolution Scheme (covering complaints against some credit unions and building societies)

    Credit Union Dispute Resolution Centre Pty Ltd (covering complaints against most credit unions)

    Credit Ombudsman Service Ltd (covering complaints against some mortgage providers)

    Legal Practitioner Complaint Line

    Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (STC) (a statutory body covering complaints against superannuation funds)

    Complaint contact information for over 225 agencies

    Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)

    SEARCH ENGINES

     Google, widely regarded as the best search engine

    Google Australia

    Copernic - an excellent meta search engine which needs to be installed on the user's computer (unfortunately, it no longer includes Google)

    A fast meta search engine, Ixquick Metasearch

    A useful meta search engine, Metacrawler

    A different type of search tool, Ask Jeeves

    LIBRARIES AND RELATED SERVICES

    National Library of Australia (NLA)

    Cataloguing-in-Publication (CiP)

    Legal deposit

    Public Lending Right scheme (PLR)

    Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)

    Allotment of International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN)

    Allotment of International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSN)

    Librarians' Index to the Internet

    Australian Newspapers beta (from NLA)

    Library of Congress, Washington

    Copyright information sheets

    MISCELLANEOUS

    Questions about grammar, punctuation, style and word usage

    Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)

    Australian Standards for Editing Practice

    An article discussing the limitations of the encyclopaedia in the following link

    Wikipedia, an online encyclopaedia

    Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Ask an expert

    Word Play - numerous links to word sites

    Internet resources for writers

    Proportional Representation Society of Australia (PRSA)

    New Zealand Companies Office, for incorporated societies and charitable trusts

    Organ donations

    Scams

    Scams

    Australian postcodes

    Exchange rates for 164 currencies

    A buzzword generator

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

    CIA World Factbook

    Nomination form for the Australian honours system

    Philanthropy Australia

    A link checker (covering both internal and external links)

    A local search engine for a home page

    Wayback machine (archived web pages)

    Australian Associated Press

    The McLibel story

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