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HFA Group releases results of advisor survey on absolute return funds

Australia's financial advisors are confident equity markets will continue to improve over the coming year, but see a growing role for absolute return strategies to protect investors' from potential market falls, according to HFA Research, a division ...

S&P affirms ratings on CFS Gandel Retail Trust

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2003
Standard & Poor's said today it has affirmed its A/A-1 long- and short-term ratings on CFS Gandel Retail Trust (GAN) and its guaranteed debt issues and programs. At the same time, the outlook on the long-term rating was revised to negative from stable. ...

Overseas arrivals and departures data reveal slight upsurge: ABS

The latest data for overseas arrivals and departures has revealed a 0.4 per cent increase in the number of short-term visitor arrivals for the month of August, compared with the data for July. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed ...

Investa ups distribution forecast

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Listed property trust Investa Property Group Ltd has upped its distribution forecast for 2003/04 to 16.5 cents. The group had previously forecast the full year distribution to be 16.2 cents per unit. Investa chairman Ian Payne told unitholders at the ...

Morning Market Wrap:End of winning streak; dollar sets fresh high

The Australian share market is likely to lose ground today, ending a winning streak that began at the start of October, after falls in international markets overnight. But shares in producers of base metals - nickel in particular - are once again likely ...

RBA expected to hold rates, but hikes will come

Australia's effervescent economy will force interest rates to rise soon but most economists think the Reserve Bank will wait for further evidence of a global upswing before hiking rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has kept rates on hold for ...

Interest rate changes unlikely in tomorrow's RBA deliberation

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2003
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is unlikely to alter its steady stance on interest rates when it meets tomorrow as it will be weighing up the durability of the US economic recovery, economists have said. "Although the market has been flirting with ...

BHP Billiton benefits from lnickel upswing underestimated: analysts

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2003
BHP Billiton Ltd's earnings benefits from the upswing in the stainless steel cycle had been underestimated, analysts said today. The comments came after the global miner updated the market on its plans to increase nickel production in a bid to meet ...

OECD predicts continued economic recovery

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) announced recently in a report published by its chief economist Jean-Philippe Cotis that a US economic recovery is unfolding whilst in Japan, growth has surprised on the upside, but in ...

Macquarie Bank launches pioneer international investment scheme

Macquarie Bank announced that it would be offering Australian investors the opportunity to invest in international shares with 100 per cent capital protection for the first time tomorrow, with the launch of the Protected International Lending Facility ...