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Don't drink coffee, make more than $160,000

... per year of 8.5 per cent and a management fee of 1 per cent. The survey found that while 1 in 2 would stop spending a fortune on lunches, a lower 15 per cent were willing to forego their daily caffeine fix or Friday night drinks. An even smaller 6 per ...

Smooth, but watchful, sailing: Perpetual

With its bottom-up, fundamentals investment style, Perpetual doesn't do fortune telling. Even so, it sees no significant bumps on the horizon. That said, Emilio Gonzales, chief investment officer, noted at a briefing, "It is getting harder and harder ...

Tricom use MIR portfolios for their IMA

... in the past, through a lack of quality fund managers to run the product, but now hopes MIR will change the face of its fortune. "The problem we've had in Australia with Managed Accounts has been getting enough of the really high quality fund managers ...

ING on the right track

In recent times ING's Wholesale Australian Share Trust has been battling both performance problems and personnel issues but a refinement in strategy coupled with new staff appointments see the fund well placed for a reversal of fortunes. While the fund ...

Tower back in profit

Tower has turned its fortunes around to report a full-year profit for 2004 of NZ$54.6 million after making a loss of NZ$148.9 million in 2003. Contributing factors toward the positive result included improved profitability following a company restructure ...

Higher and higher for Australian shares

... senior consultant warned "diversification like insurance is usually put in place for sound reasons. After a good run of fortune it is tempting to question whether it is really necessary. However the long-term value of diversification overseas will be ...

Macquarie Bank takeover of RG Capital gets green light

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
... owned by Australian television tycoon Reg Grundy who built his media empire after developing a radio game show, Wheel of Fortune, which he transferred to television in 1959. The chairman Brian Bickmore today paid tribute to the board and staff who made ...

Wealth-creation seminar promoters comply with undertakings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
... he wanted to create 1,000 millionaires in this country, by showing \"desperate\" ordinary Australians how to make their fortune in 101 days. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said yesterday it had obtained undertakings from ...

Less mergers this year: IRESS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
... well for his company. "The equity market is a definite positive - it probably started turning for us, and our clients' fortune, around December last year and we are seeing firmness there," Mr Dunai said after today's annual general meeting. "We're not ...

Morning Market Wrap: Dollar hits six year high

The Australian dollar charged above $US0.6900 overnight to hit its highest level in nearly six years as the United States dollar crumbled across the board. The local unit hit $US0.6920 in New York - its highest level since January of 1998. At 0700 the ...