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Active equity fund managers underperform: Intech

... released the results of its sector fund performance survey, claiming the results highlighted a disappointing performance from active equity fund managers. Intech senior consultant Andrew Korbel said the result revealed active fund managers had failed ...

News Corp in talks with Liberty ? Now clearer and muddier

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... Apparently they are. A fortnight ago Liberty Media's John Malone told the UK's Financial Times newspaper he was in "fairly active" talks with Rupert Murdoch about buying some of News Corp's media businesses. Mr Malone, a major shareholder in News Corp ...

Murdoch raises News Corp forecast, hints at higher dividend

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2004
... conglomerate's third quarter profit 30%. Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, said an increased dividend for shareholders was under active consideration and the company was on track to re-incorporate from its Australian base to the US by the end of the 2004 ...

Australian small cap stocks rise 4.7%

Australian small cap stocks rose 4.7% in the first quarter of 2004, outperforming both the All Ordinaries Index and the S&P/ASX 200 Index, according to stockbroking firm Intersuisse. This rise follows the strong 42% increase by the sector in 2003. The ...

Finium shakes up international shares portfolio

... Deutsche Global Equity Thematic Fund. Finium chief executive officer Chris Lumby said the changes reflected the Group's active manager selection and monitoring process, which aims to continually enhance the risk and return offering for investors.

QBE could be close to acquisitions

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
... flagged the group's intention to expand via acquisition. At the annual general meeting on Friday he described QBE as "very active" in seeking possible purchases in Australasia. "It could be tomorrow, it could be the next day or it could be in a month's ...

Challenger says divests non core property assets

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
Diversified financial services company Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd said today it has entered into unconditional contracts for the sale of 11 properties to Cromwell Corporation Ltd for $152 million. Challenger said this is an increase of ...

New NAB boss has own suspicions about rogue trading scandal

New National Australia Bank Ltd boss John Stewart today said investigations into the bank's foreign exchange trading scandal would likely find "people who were asleep on watch". While Mr Stewart said the truth about the rogue trading scandal would not ...

Stocks increasingly popular with Australians: ASX

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
More Australians now directly own shares and are more active and committed participants, a survey released today found. The Australian Stock Exchange's (ASX) 2003 Share Ownership Study (SOS) showed 51% of 2,402 adults surveyed own shares - the equivalent ...

Season's Greetings from the Financial Standard team

... safe holiday period. Our daily news service will return on 12 January 2004, but until that time the website will remain active and readers will still have full access to the news archives and Intelligence Unit research and analysis. We thank you for ...