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Lowly two stars for Advance's Goldman Sachs-managed international equities

Morningstar has awarded an uninspiring two stars for Advance Asset's Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) of Advance's international equities management. GSAM has been responsible for the Advance WorldWide shares Fund investment management since August  ...

FirstMac prices $350 million MBS issue

Macquarie Bank Ltd has announced that the FirstMac Group has priced a $350 million mortgage backed securitisation issue under its FirstMac Bond Series Trust securitisation programme. Macquarie is the arranger and lead manager for the issue. The issue ...

NAB expressed interest in AFS business: AMP

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2003
National Australia Bank Ltd expressed interest in acquiring AMP Ltd's Australian Financial Services (AFS) business through an "off market" sale back in May, it was revealed today. But NAB, which did not present an actual proposal, was told by AMP that ...

Constellation launches HomeGlobal investment method

Constellation Capital Management, an Australian-based specialist investment manager today announced the launch of its HomeGlobal investment method that resolves a range of investor concerns including the need to offset the dominance of certain stocks ...

PSS/CSS calls for withdrawal of Gunns resolution

The Public Sector and Commonwealth Super (PSS/CSS) funds has called for the withdrawal or a delay in the resolution to alter Gunns Limited's articles of association to prevent development, clearfelling or selective logging of defined old-growth forest ...

Morningstar likely to downgrade Zurich international equities

Morningstar has announced today that it would reassess its four star rating of Zurich Australia in light of three key staff departures from its international equities investment management sub contractor Deutsche Asset Management. Morningstar has said ...

Equity sentiment reaches extremely bullish levels: FSIU

The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) today released the results of its market expectations survey for August 2003, citing that most industry professionals surveyed have predicted that equities would outperform the other asset classes, especially ...

Colonial First State receives financial services licence

Large Australian fund managers have begun to receive their new Australian Financial Services Licences (AFSL), with Colonial First State Investments Limited among the first recipients. "It is a credit to our enthusiastic and committed staff that we have ...

Standard & Poor's announces additions to the S&P/ASX Indices

Equity indices provider Standard & Poor's has announced that, effective after the close of business on 26 August 2003 two constituent additions will take place in the S&P/ASX 100 and S&P/ASX 200 indices. These additions will be reflected in the starting ...

Midday market wrap: Australian shares push higher

The Australian share market was trading close to a 12 month high in the morning session, following strong gains overnight in major international markets. In the US the Dow Jones index pushed to the highest level in 14 months, while in London the FTSE ...