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Victoria, Queensland break rising unemployment trend: ABS

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for Australia's labour force showed a decline of 42,800 in the number of unemployed persons from 9,563,500 in February 2003 to 9,520,7000 in March 2003. Full time employment decreased by 64,800 ...

Perpetual gains $100 million worth of funds in March

Perpetual has reversed recent losses in its funds under management (FUM), increasing assets by $100 million since February 28 to a total of $16.5 billion on March 31, it announced today. Last month, Perpetual announced a $1.1 billion outflow in FUM ...

Hedge funds underperform broader indices in March: Hennessee

... over the month. The Macro Index followed with a loss of 1.25% as the same strategy that made it the best performer in February (long bonds/short equities, long oil and gold) made it the worst in March. "Although we are still in a trader's market, stock ...

Morningstar gives three stars to AMP's Australian small caps fund

Morningstar has announced a three star rating for AMP Henderson Global Investors' Australian small caps fund. "Historical medium-term performance for the flagship retail AMP-Small Companies Fund has been above benchmark, although performance over the ...

Fixed interest managers under-perform index over 12 months

Australian fixed interest funds have under-performed the sector index over the past 12 months, returning 9.26% compared to the index performance of 9.63%, according to Rainmaker Information. The best performing fund manager in the Australian fixed interest ...

Bo Long companies put into liquidation: ASIC

The Supreme Court of Queensland has appointed Maree Henry and Grant Sparks of SimsPartners, Brisbane, to liquidate the property of the Bo Long group of companies following an application made by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) ...

Job vacancies up 4% since November 2002: ABS

The trend estimate of the number of job vacancies in Australia has risen by 4 per cent since November 2002, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today The ABS said there were 106,800 job vacancies in February, with 92,800 in the private sector ...

Life ban upheld for former Feldworth investment adviser

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has upheld the permanent ban of Hans Felden, formerly of Feldworth Financial Services, from acting as an investment adviser or securities dealer, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said ...

Trade deficit widens to $1.87 billion: ABS

Australia's balance of trade in goods and services stood at a deficit figure of $1.87 billion for February 2003 as compared to a deficit of $1.31 billion in January 2003. Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today showed that the ...

Building approvals fall by 4% in February: ABS

The total number of building approvals in Australia during February fell by 4 per cent from January to 12,743 units, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data released today. This is also a 3.1% decrease in the number of building approvals ...