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ALP's Stephen Conroy urges greater corporate governance

The ALP Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Corporate Governance Stephen Conroy has outlined three areas where corporate reform is urgently needed, during a speech presented to the Company Secretaries Association (CSA) today. He said the most ...

Australian equity fund managers add value in 2003: survey

The 9.5% return on Australian equities in the first four months of the financial year was the strongest of any comparable period since 1993, while the median Australian equities fund manager has added even further value for investors, according to data ...

NAB's economic report cites RBA's leaning towards neutral interest rates

The latest National Australia Bank (NAB) weekly economic report released on November 20 has cited comments by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Ian Macfarlane, who stated that the balance of risks to the medium term inflation outlook has ...

Gold Coast company director committed for trial: ASIC

Former Gold Coast businessman Lakhmi Gulabrai Daswani - also known as Lux Daswani - was today committed to stand trial in the District Court on charges brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Mr Daswani was committed ...

Morning Market Wrap: US markets weak

In New York major market gauges opened higher and then weakened. The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average was down 50 points at 9661. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 5 points to 1038. The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index was down ...

Merchandise imports rise to $11.84 billion: ABS

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2003
Merchandise imports rose three per cent in October to $11.84 billion as the higher Aussie dollar pushed down the price of imported goods. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said imports rose $350 million in the month. Imports of food and live ...

Equity Trustees and SG Hiscock team up for a third offering

Equity Trustees and boutique fund manager SG Hiscock and Company today announced they are now offering the EQT SGH Absolute Return Trust to the retail and investor directed portfolio services (IDPS) markets. It is the third offering to the retail market ...

Short-term visitor arrivals dip by 2% to 423,800 during October: ABS

The number of short-term visitor arrivals during October was 423,800, a decrease of two per cent as compared with the month of September, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said today. The majority of the visitors arrived from Europe (115,700) ...

Coles Myer reports 11.9% rise in first quarter sales

Coles Myer Ltd (CML) today announced first quarter sales of $7.1 billion, and increase of 11.9 per cent for the 13 weeks ended 26 October 2003. CML chief executive John Fletcher said the business continued to make good progress against strategy in a ...

Surveys show growth funds up again in October

Growth funds enjoyed another good month in October, according to two surveys released in the past week. And now, despite the preceding two years in which many growth funds typically produced negative returns, one asset consultant claims there has been ...