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Hot investments cold: Navigator

Retail investors are continuing to favour conservative or defensive options, according to new analysis released by platform Navigator Australia Limited. Correspondingly, they have not yet warmed to "hot" themes such as ethical funds or hedge funds ...

Annualised growth rate beats long term trend: Westpac/MI

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2003
Australia's economic growth would continue to improve in the second half of 2003 and into the first half of 2004, according to the Westpac-Melbourne Institute Leading Index of Economic Activity. The annualised growth rate of the index, which normally ...

Strong business investment to peak by mid-2004: Westpac economist

Strong business investment is expected to continue and peak towards the middle of next year, driven primarily by strong domestic demand for housing and consumer goods. In an exclusive interview with the Financial Standard, Justin Smirk, senior economist ...

Trust Co announces $5.56 million first half net profit

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2003
Trust Company of Australia Ltd said its merger with Permanent Trustees had yielded good dividends as it announced a strong interim profit result today. In response Trust's shares defied the market trend and pushed up 45 cents to $7.70. The company ...

Perpetual profits up

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2003
Perpetual Trustees Australia Ltd said today that profit for the first quarter is ahead of the same period last year. Chairman Charles Curran said this reflects increased fund inflows as markets continued to improve, and cost management. "I am pleased ...

Import price index dips 3.4% in the September quarter: ABS

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has said the import price index for all groups of goods, commodities and transactions had a negative 3.4 per cent change from the June quarter of 2003 to the September quarter. The change in the import price ...

ABS releases figures for producer price indexes for the year

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released the latest producer price indexes, which showed 1.5 per cent increase in the price of final commodities for the year to September 2003. The index recorded a 0.5% increase in the same price value ...

Superannuation assets jump in June quarter: APRA

The value of Australian superannuation assets recovered strongly in the June quarter, and now stands at record levels, according to latest data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). But APRA said most of the rise was due ...

Policy reflation likely for the US

In the third quarter of 2003, the negative gap between the Fed's funds rate and nominal GDP growth was likely the widest since the late 1970s thus leading to a greater stance of policy reflation in the US. Harvinder Kalirai, senior strategist at State ...

ASIC moves to restrain Aloe project financiers

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Queensland to restrain Export Growth Finance Pty Ltd (EGF) from pursuing demands issued to investors who invested in the Australian Aloe Ltd ...