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Westpac announces $1.05 billion half-year profit

Westpac Banking Corporation has declared an after tax operating profit of $1.05 billion for the half-year ended March 2003. Cash earnings attributable to ordinary shareholders were 1.09 billion, up 10 per cent compared to March 2002. On a cash basis ...

Unemployment drops 0.1% to 6.1% in April 2003: ABS

The national unemployment figure dropped from 6.2 per cent in March 2003 to 6.1% in April 2003, according to the employment statistics released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The labour force participation rate dipped from 64.1% to 64%. ...

Growth funds record highest returns since October 2001: InTech

The median growth fund returned 2.9 per cent for April, the largest monthly gain since October 2001, InTech said today. The median growth fund return for the 2001/02 financial year was -4.1%. The median fund returned 1.6% in March and InTech believes ...

Funds split over need to apply for an AFS licence

Superannuation funds are apparently split on the issue of applying for an Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL), according to a survey conducted by Towers Perrin of 17 of Australia's largest funds representing over $34 billion in assets and 450,000 ...

Analysis: Australian international equities funds beat benchmark

The median Australian international equities manager has outperformed the benchmark over the one-quarter, one-year, two-year, and three-year periods, according to research conducted by the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit. The benchmark, as expressed ...

Lowest quarterly inflow of retail funds in eight years: Assirt

The March 2003 quarter saw the lowest quarterly retail managed fund inflows since March 1995, totalling $434 million, according to Assirt. This is also the first time that quarterly inflows have dipped below the $1 billion mark since 1996. The declines ...

St George Bank announces $298 million half-year profit

St George Bank today announced an interim profit after tax of $298 million for the half year ended March 31 2003 and an interim dividend of $0.45 (up from $0.38 at March 31 2002) in what the bank said was a strong overall performance at the upper end ...

Retail trade increases by 0.7% to $14.64 billion in March 2003

Retail trade increased by 0.7 per cent in March to $14.64 billion, while the value of retail trade for the March quarter as a whole was $41.63 billion, a 0.2% dip from the value of retail trade in the December 2002 quarter, according to figures released ...

Trade deficit down 22.24% in March: ABS

The Australian economy experienced a $1.48 billion trade deficit for the month of March 2003, a decrease of 22.24 per cent from the deficit experienced in February 2003 of $1.90 billion. In the latest economic figures released by the Australian Bureau ...

Listed property sector rebounds in March-survey

The Listed property sector rebounded strongly in March following a poor month in February to return 4.39 per cent, beating the All Ordinaries and S&P 300 indices (3.92%), according to Rainmaker Information. Listed property returned -2.72% in February. ...