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Tower issues $161 million half-year loss warning

Trans-Tasman financial services group Tower has announced an expected loss of "in excess" of NZ$180 million ($161 million) when it releases its half-year results on May 28. The company said that operating profit for the period is expected to be in the ...

FEA scraps ongoing fees from new woodlot project

Forest Enterprises Australia (FEA) has announced the release of its new woodlot project for 2003, its eleventh managed investment scheme. "The project that we are announcing today differs significantly fro our offering of last year with no ongoing fees ...

Retail investors to pay $1.70 per share in Promina

... allocated 74 per cent of the total offer with retail investors taking the remaining 26%. The market capitalisation of the trans-Tasman insurance and financial services group, based on the institutional price of $1.80 per share, will be approximately ...

South Australia building approvals surge 41.1%: ABS

The number of building approvals for dwelling units in South Australia increased by 41.1% from February to March 2003, representing an increase from 745 to 1,051, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The number ...

van Eyk adds Dry to Agribusiness team

van Eyk Research has added to its expanding Agribusiness division by appointing Dr Peter Dry as a consultant. Dr Dry will provide analysis and will assist in the firm's annual Agribusiness reviews, it said. Director of van Eyk Capital Harry Sookias ...

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 ...

Macquarie launches forestry product to retail investors

Macquarie Alternative Assets Management has launched a forestry product to the retail market in which investors can take part in a tree growing business and/or own the land on which the trees are planted, it has announced. The Macquarie Forestry Investment ...

WRF to launch Tasmanian blue gums offering

WRF Capital is to launch an investment product in Tasmanian blue gum trees on Kangaroo Island in a bid to take advantage of the burgeoning trade in carbon credits, it has announced. "Our aim is to put forestry on the serious investment list for all ...

Victoria, Queensland break rising unemployment trend: ABS

The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for Australia's labour force showed a decline of 42,800 in the number of unemployed persons from 9,563,500 in February 2003 to 9,520,7000 in March 2003. Full time employment decreased by 64,800 ...

Tasmanian insurance agent jailed

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today announced that Peter Neilson, a 47-year old director of Tasmanian insurance consultants P.R. Consultants, has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment by the Supreme Court of Tasmania ...