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Big gaps in performance between managers

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2006
Morningstar's league tables for the year ending 30 June 2006 showed strong performances, but a wide spread, in large cap managers, while value managers continued to struggle. Outperforming the market, which did 24.02 per cent over the year to 30 June  ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a range of measures aimed at easing the impact of the fuel crisis bought about by rising crude oil prices, tensions in the Middle East and the increasing demands by the industrial expansion in China and India. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2006
The share market is expected to open higher following a positive US lead triggered by a sharp fall in the oil price, which overshadowed terrorist fears. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price index contract was up 12 points at 4,916. ...

Daily economic report

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates firm last night at 5.25 per cent after 17 consecutive rate increases since June 2004, a result of rising energy and labour costs. The June quarter data showed that the annualised pace of growth halved to 2.5 ...

Daily economic update

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
In its quarterly monetary policy statement last Friday the RBA hinted that further rate increases in the near term were still a possibility because of the buoyancy of the housing market, where it said that conditions had picked up in the first six months ...

Options broker guilty of large scale forgery

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
A former Bell Potter Securities options adviser and stockbroker has entered a guilty plea to 27 charges of forgery. South Australian resident Neville Kakoschke entered a guilty plea to the 27 forgery charges brought by the Australian Securities and ...

AXA Asia Pac chief to bow out

AXA Asia Pacific group chief executive, Les Owen, has said he does not intend to extend his contract which expires at year-end, stating the time is right for a change after his near seven year tenure at the top. "I have been in my role for nearly 7 ...

GIO Insurance directors hit with heavy penalties

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
Three former directors of GIO Insurance were disqualified and dealt hefty fines by the NSW Supreme Court after an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation into their dishonest and improper conduct. Geoffrey Vines, Francis ...

Challenger re-invents distribution team

Funds management group Challenger has announced that senior managers in its distribution team will be shuffling chairs, in line with the company's continued growth push. NSW state manager, Mark Burgess, will move to the newly created role of head of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
The share market is expected to open weaker, after a negative lead from the Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0720 AEST, the September share price index contract was down 20 points at 4,949. Today the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announces ...