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Midday Market Wrap: Investors return to banking after RBA interest rate hold

... Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to maintain interest rates saw investors return to the banking sector. Macquarie Equities analyst Lucinda Chan said the banks were up slightly with good volumes. Meanwhile strength among resource stocks offset falls ...

Sponsors flag closing date for Fiduciary International Real Estate Fund

... abroad, partly driven by an insufficient supply of attractive property investments. With expectations of lower returns from equities and persistent volatility, many Australian superannuation funds are lifting strategic allocations to real estate investments. ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Quiet end to ASX week

... cents to $4.99 after investors warmed to details given today on its $800 million to $1.0 billion share buyback. ABN Amro equities director Leigh Gardner said investors were pleased that the nation's biggest telco offering full franking credits in the ...

Perpetual launches new infrastructure fund

... group announcing the launch of a new wholesale diversified infrastructure fund. The fund expects to invest primarily in equities issued by unlisted Australian infrastructure companies and projects, resulting from government privatisations, negotiated ...

Afternoon Market Wrap: Shares rally on rosy earnings prospects

... ASX could benefit from a positive earnings revision cycle over the next few months." The ASX reported an average 72,800 equities trades a day for September, up 40 per cent on the same period a year earlier and enough to lift average daily volumes to ...

Aberdeen announces new Asian equity fund

... continued to restructure its range of wholesale offerings, with the group announcing the launch of a new Asian (ex-Japan) equities fund. The new Aberdeen Asian Opportunities Fund will be managed from Singapore, exploiting the Aberdeen group's long established ...

Indices show property losing its allure

... 3.4% in the three months to August. This compares with a 3.0% gain in the S&P/ASX 300 in August and a 7.7% return from equities in the three months to August. Listed property trusts (LPTs) were the worst performing sub-sector, delivering -1.8% in August ...

Afternoon market wrap: All Ordinaries close higher, Tower shares rise

... mixed, News Corp was down and Telstra was up. "It's been fairly unexciting - there's been no dramatic moves," Intersuisse equities manager Andrew Sekely said. Tower Ltd shares surged today, as the trans-Tasman financial services group shut its Australian ...

Macquarie Funds research reveals dynamic hedging outperformance

... systematically as the currency rises or falls. "We know that superannuation funds have increased their exposure to international equities during the past 10 years," Ms Pleban said. "This means it is increasingly important that they ensure they employ ...

AMP stock jumps 30 per cent in September quarter

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... climbed 10 per cent, and 17.5 per cent from its low during the quarter. "Investors who lost their nerve and switched from equities to cash in March 2003 would have missed the rebound in the equity market and would now be 20 per cent worse off," Dr Lundy ...