Useful Links from Books by Nick Renton

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)

AFR Smart Investor magazine

CompareShares, an online magazine

GOVERNMENTS

LEGISLATION

Commonwealth and State legislation and case law (Austlii)

Commonwealth and State legislation and case law (ScalePlus)

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)

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)

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

Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT)