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InTech says double-digit returns within reach

Asset consultancy group Intech Financial Services reported growth-oriented superannuation funds recorded positive returns in April against a background or negative returns across all major asset sectors. According to InTech, the median growth fund returned ...

Walter piles on pressure ahead of National Bank shareholder meeting

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2004
... non-executive directors, led by chairman Graeme Kraehe, are asking shareholders to dump Walter from the board after her attack on the independence of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report into the rogue trading scandal. In a statement yesterday, Walter demanded ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
... Shares of McDonald's tumbled after its chairman and chief executive, Jim Cantalupo, died suddenly of an apparent heart attack. The company named President and Chief Operating Officer Charlie Bell as CEO to succeed Cantalupo. Investors snapped up tech ...

Business groups fear Labor government: Andrews

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2004
Business groups fear a federal Labor government will derail the economy, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews said today. Andrews attacked Labor and the Australian Democrats after the government overnight failed for the second time to pass laws ...

Labor says we were wrong on super blooper

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
Federal Labor was yesterday forced to admit to an embarrassing bungle in its latest pensions promise and confessed it had no plans to pay retirees an extra $25-a-week. The opposition owned up to the mistake after Treasurer Peter Costello seized on Opposition ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2004
The Australian dollar gained after a choppy night of trading and looks to be forming a base at around $US0.7255, after falling there late on Friday. At 0700 AEDT the local currency was trading at $US0.7360/65 compared with yesterday's close of 0.7343/48. ...

Bovis Lend Lease Americas appoints COO

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2004
Lend Lease Corporation today announced the appointment of Peter Marchetto as chief operating officer of construction company Bovis Lend Lease Americas, effective immediately. Mr Marchetto moves to the position from his former position as president of ...

Free trade deal goes public, but attacked over PBS

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
The 1,000 page free trade deal with the United States was released publicly yesterday and immediately slammed for undermining Australia's cheap medicines system. Officials were unable to explain a key detail in the agreement which will allow decisions ...

Morning Market Wrap: Investors expecting confidence boost

... dollar lost ground against the euro on Friday after a report in a Saudi newspaper outlining the possibility of a terror attack in coming months, they said. The US government then issued an advisory warning about al Qaeda's continued talk of terror attacks ...

Midday Market Wrap: Turkey terror impacts market

The terrorist bombings in Turkey overnight continued to impact on the Australian share market to noon, as it followed in the wake of uneasy markets in New York overnight. At 1210 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index had lost 14.8 points to 3169.3 while ...