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Distributor sees continued growth in non-advisory services

Non-advisory online platform services will be underpinned by rapid growth in do-it-yourself (D-I-Y) super, according to Michael Lannon, managing director of 20/20 Funds Direct Invest. The claims follow the recent departure of National Australia Bank's ...

Macquarie to purchase Swedish rail link

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2003
... infrastructure in Europe's OECD countries. The A-Train will be the fund's second seed asset after Macquarie's purchase of UK water utility South East Water plc for $948 million on October 2, 2003. Mr Ward said the impact of the A-Train purchase on Macquarie's ...

Kiwi industry profits up 42 per cent

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
... agriculture, forestry and fishing ($4.0 billion, up 24 percent); retail trade ($2.3 billion, up 49 percent); electricity, gas and water supply ($2.1 billion, up 20 percent); and construction ($1.9 billion, up 19 percent). Industries excluded were residential ...

Record September trading at Commsec

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's internet broking arm Commsec has reported a record trading month in September, but doesn't put this down to the recent acquisition of a key rival. "If you combined the level of trading that the two organisations had ...

Macquarie Bank buys into UK water firm for $948m

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
Macquarie Bank Ltd today said it had acquired British water utility South East Water plc (SEW) and its affiliated businesses for about $948 million. SEW is the second largest of the 12 Water Only Companies in Britain and supplies 400 million litres ...

Local Authorities Super to be renamed Vision Super

... members and total assets exceeding $2.3 billion. Historically, its membership has been drawn from local government, the water industry, and community services. Since becoming a Regulated Fund in 1998, over 300 new companies have joined. Vision Super ...

Midday market wrap: Banks keep ASX above water

AAP. COMMONWEALTH SECURITIES  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
Positive trading in the banking sector kept the Australian stock market above water at noon, following a nervous start and losses on Wall Street overnight. By 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 6.2 points to 3179.0, while the all ordinaries ...

Stockland continue property construction expansion

Stockland has announced the acquisition of an 8,442 square metre prime waterfront site located on the shore of Lake Burley Griffin within the Kingston Foreshore Development in Canberra's premier urban redevelopment project for $27 million. "The acquisition ...

Stockland acquires $480 million in residential development projects

Stockland has today announced the acquisition of four new residential development projects in New South Wales and Queensland over the past three months for a value of over $480 million. "These acquisitions are in line with our strategic objective of ...

Commonwealth ministers meet in Brunei, focus on poverty

... two-thirds of them survive on less than two dollars a day, while 270 million people within the grouping lack access to clean water. "Poverty is a critical issue for many of the low income countries in the Commonwealth," said one of the officials.