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Right direction for Merrill Lynch Australian share fund

Morningstar Research has given Merrill Lynch's Wholesale Australian Share Fund's investment strategy an investment grade rating. The fund has performed poorly over the last three years being outperformed by the index by 3.84 per cent per annum. Several ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2004
In Sydney today the sharemarket is expected to open slightly weaker as lacklustre trade from a shortened US trading session provides little direction for the local bourse. Weaker base metal prices to end last week could also weigh on the domestic resource ...

S&P changes its indices

S&P has announced changes to its indices in the US and Australia in relation to News Corporation. After trading closes on Friday December 17, 2004 New Corp. will be included as part of the S&P 500 index. Three to five days before News' inclusion in ...

Four stage phase out for News Corp; S&P

Index provider Standard & Poor's announced on Friday it had decided on a nine-month rolling period for the removal of News Corp from the S&P/ASX indices. S&P said News Corp, subject to a number of conditions, would be phased out of the ASX indices in ...

FPA backs new ASIC guidelines on SOA's

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has thrown is support behind the latest guidelines provided by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on how licensees and their representatives prepare Statements of Advice (SOA). "These ...

DUET stapled securities issue price set at $2.29

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2004
The issue price of the stapled units in Diversified Utility and Energy Trusts (DUET), an investment fund joint ventured by AMP Capital investors and Macquarie Bank, has been set at $2.29 per unit. An institutional bookbuild for the initial public offer ...

Leap year boosts February retail figures: Cashcard

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2004
An extra day thanks to the leap year helped Australian retail spending levels nudge higher in February but the shortest month in the calendar remains the lowest one for turnover, research found. The Cashcard Retail Activity Index showed retail spending ...

Jobs figures strengthen expectations of further rate hike

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2004
Better-than-expected jobs growth in December strengthened expectations of a further rate hike next month as figures showed unemployment remained at 14-year lows. Treasurer Peter Costello said the December jobless rate of 5.6%, the same as November ...

Henderson wins long-term mandate competition in the UK

Henderson Global Investors has been voted winners of the long-term mandate competition organised by the UK University pensions fund Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the UK's third largest pension fund, and pensions consultancy Hewitt Bacon ...

David Jones reports 2.6% increase in annual sales

Upmarket retailer David Jones Ltd is on track to achieve the upper end of its 2002/03 net profit forecast, but is still expected to post an annual loss due to its Foodchain exit. The retailer today reported a 2.6 per cent increase in annual sales to ...