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UBS International Equity Fund scores an A

... the portfolio management team. At the time of assessment the fund held a modest overweight in financial and telecommunication stocks, and an underweight in technology. On a regional basis the fund held more European based investments and fewer North ...

Optus and Vodafone finalise $700m 3G joint venture

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2004
The race is on to see which of Australia's biggest telecommunications companies will be the first to launch third generation (3G) network services to its customers. Optus and Vodafone Australia today announced they had signed a binding agreement to ...

ANZ joint venture with Cambodian telco

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2004
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd today announced it had signed an agreement with Royal Group to establish a joint venture bank in Cambodia. The agreement follows an approach earlier this year by Royal Group, Cambodia's leading mobile telecommunications ...

Coonan confident on Telstra sale

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2004
The gap between the coalition partners did not appear to be all that great when it came to the full sale of Telstra, Communications Minister Helen Coonan said today. Senator Coonan said a thorough investigation of the government's commitment to rural ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2004
The Australian share market is expected to open slightly firmer after some buying in light trade in the US market, although domestic issues are likely to dominate trade again today. The Australian market rallied yesterday despite weaker offshore markets ...

Telstra starts capital management plan with $750m buyback

Telstra Corp has unveiled details of a $750 million off-market share buyback today as part of its three year, $4.5 billion capital management program. In June, Australia's biggest telecommunications company said it planned to return $1.5 billion to ...

Westpac tops list in corporate responsibility: survey

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2004
Westpac Bank has topped the list in a new index of corporate responsibility, released on Saturday. Runners-up in the self-assessment survey were BP, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Toyota. Authors of the inaugural Corporate Responsibility Index, which is ...

Telstra plans special dividend, share buyback

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
Australia\'s largest telecommunications company, Telstra Corp, has delivered a 20% rise in net profit for 2003/04 and unveiled plans for a special dividend in the first half of the current year. Telstra said it intends to pay a special dividend of six ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2004
The local market is likely to continue its wait and see approach ahead of the upcoming reporting season with no real direction from overseas markets overnight. Trading volumes were expected to pick up later this week and next week as investors take ...

HSBC appoints ex-Perpetual CEO Graham Bradley to board

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
HSBC Bank Australia has announced Graham Bradley will join its board as an independent non-executive director from 4 June. Mr Bradley brings to the board more than 30 years of executive management experience in financial services, legal and consulting ...