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The rise of the Australian bourse to continue, analysts

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2004
The Australian share market should continue to rise off the record highs recorded last week, as companies deliver the goods to shareholders after a prosperous 2003/04 reporting season, market analysts said on Friday. The benchmark ASX 200 index could ...

Telstra top executives to be grilled by ACCC: report

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2004
Senior Telstra Corp executives including the company\'s top legal officer and internet chief will be grilled by the competition regulator this week, as hostilities escalate over allegations of predatory internet pricing by the telco, it was reported ...

Westpac tops list in corporate responsibility: survey

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2004
Westpac Bank has topped the list in a new index of corporate responsibility, released on Saturday. Runners-up in the self-assessment survey were BP, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton and Toyota. Authors of the inaugural Corporate Responsibility Index, which is ...

Shifting goalposts cloud Assirt survey results

... highlighted Australian sourced total investment management (TIM) for the industry totaled $636 billion at 30 June 2004 of which the top 10 competitors managed almost two thirds the total market share. But due to definitional changes introduced for the ...

Barclays named fund manager of the year; S&P

... Fund Awards with Perpetual and UBS managed funds featuring most prominently in the winners circle while Barclays took out the top award for fund manager of the year. Perpetual's Wholesale Concentrated Equity fund was presented the award in the Australian ...

Commonwealth / Colonial top dog in managed funds; Assirt

Assirt Research has released its June quarter 2004 market share report - measuring the size of the managed funds market, confirming Commonwealth / Colonial First State Group remains the dominant force in the managed funds industry from both distribution ...

Promina's first half shines, full-year to beat guidance

... group will deliver an insurance margin in excess of 10%, and that the overall [return on capital] will be higher than the top end of our long-term range," Wilkins said. Promina's general insurance division reported a 31% improvement in its bottom line ...

AMP recaptures A credit rating after bumper H1 profits

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2004
AMP's back-in-black half-year profit results last week have proven good enough to fulfill the recovering financial services giant\'s stated aim of recapturing an A credit rating. Pointing to the strength of AMP\'s profits, Standard & Poor\'s on Friday ...

BHP smashes Australian corporate record with $4.9 bln profit

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
Soaring commodity prices have pushed BHP Billiton to a record net profit for 2003/04, with the dual-listed company nearly doubling the previous year\'s result. The world\'s largest diversified miner also said voracious demand from China and limited ...

Count expects another good year in 2004/05

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2004
... 1.2 cents previously. This took the total dividend to 3.5 cents per share, a 45% increase on that of 2002/03, it said. On top of this, the company announced the first of its 2004/05 quarterly dividends - the \"Christmas\" dividend - of one cent per share ...