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AMP details $1.2 billion rights issue as part of demerger

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2003
Troubled financial services group AMP Ltd is to undertake a $1.2 billion rights offer to redeem its reset preferred securities as part of its planned demerger. AMP also said it is injecting a further net $84 million into its United Kingdom operations. ...

Low rainfall sparks hopes of high insurance earnings

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2003
Relatively low levels of rain in recent months have sparked hopes of three of Australia's top insurers producing even better than expected earnings in the coming year. Analysts at UBS have upgraded their earnings estimates for Promina Group Ltd, Insurance ...

Petroulias to stand trail after appear decision

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
Former assistant tax commissioner Nick Petroulias will stand trial for allegedly defrauding the Commonwealth. The NSW Court of Appeal today overturned a decision to quash the charges against Petroulias, who was arrested on March 24, 2000 for an alleged ...

Security technology firm Biometrics opens IPO

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
Security technology firm Biometrics Ltd has opened an initial public offering today to raise funds to develop sophisticated systems it said would have prevent recent Australian security breakdowns. Perth-based Biometrics is seeking to raise $2.63 million ...

Macquarie Funds research reveals dynamic hedging outperformance

Dynamic currency hedging strategies have outperformed static currency hedging strategies since the float of the Australian dollar 19 years ago, according to research released today by Macquarie Funds Management. Macquarie Funds Management Division Director ...

FSIU releases specialist fund ratings

The Financial Standard Intelligence Unit (FSIU) today released its inaugural investment performance review (IPR) ratings for 93 specialist sector wholesale managed funds. The ratings, which are based on risk-adjusted performance over the three years ...

Coles Myer hopes to reap $425m yearly from supply chain benefits

Coles Myer have said today that the transformation of its supply chain would reap $425 million yearly in benefits by the end of the five-year programme. Coles Myer chief executive John Fletcher has said during the strategic initiative the group's annual ...

ASX partners with Shenzhen Stock Exchange

The Australian Stock Exchange Ltd has struck a partnership with China's second biggest share market, strengthening its bond with the world's most populous nation. The ASX said chairman Maurice Newman and Shenzhen Stock Exchange chairman Dongzheng Chen ...

ASIC deals out permanent ban to Brisbane financial planner

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has permanently banned Harvey Baigent - a Brisbane financial planner - from acting as a representative of a dealer or investment adviser. ASIC commenced an investigation of Mr Baigent following ...

Wattle net widens as four directors plead guilty

Four men associated with the Gold Coast-based Australasian Management Consultants Pty Ltd (AMC) have pleaded guilty in the Brisbane District Court to being knowingly concerned in the promotion of prescribed interests, in contravention of the Corporations ...