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Qsuper leads superannuation provider rankings

Preliminary results from Rainmaker research have shown that Qsuper is the best performing superannuation provider over the last year. For both the default category - where an investor states no preference of manager - and the investor choice category ...

Rising dollar, interest rates good for Challenger profit

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2004
Challenger Financial Services Group said today that it was a very different company to the one that existed nine months ago after reporting a pro-forma net profit of $33 million for the first half. Challenger reported a net profit for the six months ...

452 Capital launches LIC

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2004
Boutique fund manager 452 Capital said its soon to be listed investment company (LIC) Century Australia Investment would be different from other LICs in the marketplace. 452 Capital is joining the rush of listed investment companies going to the stock ...

AMP incurs $3.6 billion writedown on HHG demerger

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
Financial services group AMP Ltd incurred a $3.6 billion writedown on its HHG demerger, it said last week. AMP said in its explanatory memorandum for the demerger of its UK businesses late last year, it valued HHG at $3.2 billion which would result ...

Market Wrap

U.S. stocks fell on Thursday as investors locked in gains from the previous session after disappointing jobless claims data and lackluster earnings news. No. 2 computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. dragged down the Dow Jones industrial average after saying ...

FTA $4 billion benefit figure should be revised: expert

The government needed to revise a $4 billion figure it used to quantify economic benefits of the Australia-US free trade agreement (FTA), an international economist said today. In recent days, some ministers have put the economic benefit of the deal ...

Mariner launches first retail product

Mariner Retirement Services, a subsidiary of recently launched financial services group Mariner Financial, has released its first product for the retail marketplace, Mariner Lifestyle Bonds. The bonds, aimed at retail investors and retirees, are a fixed-term ...

Vaile warns RBA board on impact of dollar

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2004
The Reserve Bank of Australia board had to take into consideration the strong dollar and its impact on exporters when it next meets, Trade Minister Mark Vaile said. Mr Vaile said a further rise in interest rates would only strengthen the Australian ...

TCorp completes majority of funding program

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2004
NSW Treasury Corporation (TCorp) has completed the majority (75%) of its $5.2 billion full-year funding program in the first half of the 2003-2004 financial year. TCorp said it took advantage of favourable funding conditions in the six months to December ...

Productivity Commission to crack down on homeowners' scheme loopholes

Millionaires would be banned from receiving a $7,000 taxpayer subsidy towards their first home under a call to means test the first homeowners' scheme, the Productivity Commission revealed today. In its discussion paper on first home ownership, released ...