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Unilever switches strategy as FitzGerald goes

Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever switched its focus to boosting shareholder returns on Thursday after failing to meet sales growth targets, lifting its stock, and said Chairman Niall FitzGerald would retire early. Unilever Plc/NV, the food and consumer products ...

AIF to maintain dividends, after reporting $11.2 million net profit

Australian Infrastructure Fund (AIF) said today it would continue to sustain dividends, forecasting a 5.5 cents distribution for the second half of 2003/04, similar to the first half. The company reported a net profit of $11.263 million compared with ...

Total super assets increase 3.2%: APRA

Total superannuation assets in Australia increased 3.2% for the September quarter, with total assets now standing at $548.5 billion. The latest edition of Super Trends, released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, said all fund types ...

Economy begins 2004 with momentum: ANZ

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
The Australian economy has made a strong start to 2004 but interest rate hikes will slow economic growth later in the year, according to an ANZ Bank report. The bank said the local economy seemed to have rebounded smartly from its mid-2003 slump, with ...

Australians abandon property investment plans

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2004
More than 100,000 Australians have abandoned plans to invest in property this year, according to research by Wizard Home Loans. The non-bank lender said research it commissioned found the number of Australians who planned to invest over the next 12 ...

December quarter final PPI up 0.1%

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2004
Australia's producer price index (PPI) at the final stage of production rose 0.1% in the December quarter for an annual rise of 1%, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. This compares with a rise of 0.5% in the September quarter. In the quarter ...

Housing finance falls 3.9% in November

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2004
New figures today pointed to a further cooling in the housing market, with a drop in owner-occupied housing finance in November. The Australian Bureau of Statistics said the total housing finance commitments in November were down 3.%, seasonally adjusted ...

EIB to sell $500 million kangaroo bonds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2004
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will today sell $500 million of kangaroo bonds due September 2009. The bonds will be sold at between 25 and 26 basis points more than the Commonwealth Government bond of similar maturity, joint lead managers Deutsche ...

S&P assigns first AAA rating to Australian equity fund

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2004
Standard & Poor's announced today that it has assigned its first AAA rating to an Australian equity fund, assigning the top rating to the CFS FirstChoice Investments - 452 Australian Share Fund. The fund is offered through an alliance between Colonial ...

Convicted director brought before Court on new charges

A former Melbourne director has been charged in the Melbourne Magistrates Court with two counts of managing a corporation whilst disqualified, following an ASIC investigation. ASIC alleges that between September 2001 and January 2003, Charles Northam ...