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Macquarie Airports to buy out MAG shares

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2004
Macquarie Airports has offered its securities in exchange for shares in its part-owned private fund Macquarie Airports Group (MAG), increasing its ownership of several large airports. It said the offer amounted to 1.08 securities for each MAG share. ...

Peters MacGregor opens share offer with view to listing

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2004
Boutique global equities fund manager Peters MacGregor Capital Management (PMCM) today opened a share offer with a view to listing on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in April. PMCM said it would open up its high-performing investment strategy to ...

US Federal Reserve holds key short-term rate at 1%

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2004
The Federal Reserve, not wanting to upset the economic recovery, held a main short-term interest rate at a 45-year low today. Wrapping up a two-day meeting - the first regularly scheduled session of the year - Fed chairman Alan Greenspan and his colleagues ...

New horizon for MLC debt strategy

Fund manager MLC aims to protect its conservative investors against the risks of rising bond yields with the introduction of a tailored diversified bond strategy. The new strategy involves tailoring the average maturity and duration profiles of the ...

S&P and CITICS team up to build new index series for Chinese market

Standard & Poor's (S&P) and CITIC Securities (CITICS), one of China's leading financial and investment services companies, have announced they have agreed to jointly develop a new series of indices covering China's A-shares equity market. The companies ...

QIC expands fixed interest offerings

Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has launched two new fixed interest products, involving also the appointment of five external managers. According to QIC, both the Diversified Fixed Interest and Cash Enhanced Funds will be offered to investors ...

Challenger small cap fund tops performance tables: survey

Three funds - the Challenger Australian Small Companies Fund, the GMO Small Companies Trust and Perpetual Smaller Companies Share Fund - continue to lead the risk-adjusted performances of Australian small cap managers, according to a new survey. All ...

S&P affirms A minus ratings on MBF Australia, outlook stable

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2003
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said today that it has affirmed its A-minus long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings on MBF Australia Ltd. The outlook is stable. S&P said the ratings affirmation follows the announcement ...

Perpetual Corporate Trust and Bank of New York align to service Australian market

Perpetual Corporate Trust - a division of Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd - and The Bank of New York have announced a strategic alliance to offer integrated global corporate trust solutions to Australian debt issuers. "Perpetual and The Bank of New ...

Morning Market Wrap: Market likely to follow weak offshore indices

The Australian share market is likely to move lower following weaker sessions in key offshore indices on Friday. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was six points lower at 3226 on a volume of 546 contracts by 0649 AEDT. In ...