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Business confidence index rises in March: National

Australian business conditions and confidence levels are proving "remarkably resilient" despite evidence of a broad based slowing in non-farm activity, according to National Australia Bank's monthly business survey for March released today. National's ...

Super growth funds at the height of volatility:InTech

Growth oriented superannuation funds are in the midst of one of their most volatile periods with median growth fund returns of 1.6 per cent for March 2003 making it the seventh successive month of (either positive or negative) returns of 1% or greater ...

Investment Analysis: The stock-picker's market

The miserable performance of the All Ordinaries index over the last 12 months has generated a lot of pain for investors, but opportunities still exist for the canny stock-picker, according to research conducted by Financial Standard chief economist ...

AMP gets $100,000 slap on the wrist from ASIC

AMP has agreed to fund a $100,000 corporate disclosure program in the wake of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into announcements the insurance and financial services giant made to the market between July 29 and ...

Investment Analysis: Correlation between Dow Jones, Nasdaq since 9/11

Overnight trading on the Dow Jones and Nasdaq pushed the indices in different directions, with the Dow Jones rising 71.22 points to 8265.45 while the Nasdaq fell 3.47 points to 1397.08. But research conducted by the Financial Standard reveals a very ...

12 month Managed Futures Index returns at 38.63%: Tremont

Paul Cully Managed Futures hedge funds have returned 38.63 per cent over the past 12 months and 6.43% in the last month along, according to the CSFB/Tremont Hedge Fund Index for February. The returns are sharply higher than the Index's next best performing ...

BT loses $1.29 billion of retail funds in December quarter:survey

Paul Cully BT/Westpac saw $1.29 billion of retail funds leave its management in the December quarter while the sector as a whole increased by 2.4 per cent, according to the latest research by Plan For Life. BT/Westpac's retail funds under management ...

Another adviser pleads guilty to ASIC charges

Paul Cully Former South Australia financial adviser David Mudge has pleaded guilty to a charge of dishonestly coaxing an elderly client to transfer money into his account or those held by his own company, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ...

AXA's international fixed interest management transferred to US

John Fernando Alliance Capital Management Australia Limited (ACMA) has announced the management transfer of the AXA Australia's international fixed interest to the Alliance Capital US global fixed income team. AXA Australia and Alliance Capital Management ...

$16 billion of assets disappear in 12 months: ABS

Paul Cully Total assets held by fund managers have shrunk by $16 billion in the past 12 months, according to the latest managed funds figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The ABS said total assets at the end of the December ...