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Tower announces return to profit

Decisive remedial action has helped push Tower Limited back into the black, chairman Olaf O'Duill said today. The trans-Tasman financial services group announced a $NZ5.5 million ($A4.9) net profit for the six months to September. However, reflecting ...

Two disqualified directors sentenced following ASIC probe

... "Company directors who are disqualified from managing corporations must resign their directorships, and ensure they take no active part in the management of a company," warned ASIC executive director of public and commercial services Mark Drysdale. "ASIC ...

Australian equity fund managers add value in 2003: survey

... added even further value for investors, according to data released by consultant Intech Financial Services. The median active Australian shares manager return 3.5% in October and 13.8% in the first 10 months of the calendar year, outperforming the benchmark ...

Perpetual heads Australian equity rankings in September quarter: FSIU

Value managers continued to dominate risk-adjusted equity fund performance in the September quarter, according to a new survey released today. Of 167 Australian and international equity funds surveyed by the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) ...

RBA takes aim at property tax breaks

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2003
... rates up by 0.25 percentage points, along with the risk to inflation and a pick-up overseas. It said investors were more active in the market than ever before, with Australians twice as likely to own a rental property than Americans or Canadians and ...

S&P acquires former SSB equity indexes

... enables the agency to offer institutional investors a comprehensive set of global benchmarks to meet the needs of both active and passive investors. "This expansion into the broad benchmarking arena makes Standard and Poor's a comprehensive provider ...

Hedge funds underperform equity markets: Hennessee

... The Hennessee short biased index fell 5.94% in October and is down 20.81% in the year. "Most hedge funds are pursuing an active fourth quarter and see 2004 as an (US) election year with sufficient economic stimulus to continue the rally" said Mr. Gradante. ...

Putnam scandal impacts BT ratings

... confident that a significant improvement will eventuate for Putnam," it said. A spokesperson for BT said the group had been active in the past few weeks ensuring Putnam enforced change quickly, and had requested an independent review of Putnam's procedures. ...

QIC launches diversified active currency product

QIC has launched a new active currency product managed by three international currency managers and operating as one of the largest active mandates in Australia. The product will initially overlay $24 billion in assets, representing the majority of ...

New research shows implemented consultants struggle to outperform specialist managers

... there is a broad consensus the low inflation environment and diminishing government bond market hampers the ability of all active managers to add excess returns. Click here to download a full copy of the report.