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Home loans group calls on government to support reverse mortgage

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2004
... Australia needed to deal with this funding shortfall which is growing enormously due to increased longevity, soaring healthcare costs and a retired population that is set to dramatically increase over the next 20 years. Political leaders, he said, should ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2004
... the day the earnings season ramps back up to full steam with Woolworths, Austereo, Downer EDI, Sims Metal and Sonic Healthcare all unveiling full year profits.

BT appoints new portfolio manager

... worked as head of emerging companies research team at JP Morgan and previously director of technology, biotech and healthcare research at Deutsche.

Ramsay buys Benchmark Healthcare for $125mln

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2004
... it had acquired 10 hospitals in Victoria and South Australia after agreeing to acquire all the shares in Benchmark Healthcare group for $125 million. The benchmark acquisition comprises 980 hospital beds and 68 aged care beds, that will increase to a ...

Macquarie Bank appoints Dr Tom Parry to head community fund

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2004
... community developments in partnership with local and state governments. These include assets in the education, arts, healthcare, affordable housing, leisure sectors. It would also arrange seed capital for project concept planning, evaluation and feasibility ...

Macquarie to take up to 16% stake in IBA

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2004
... completion of the iSoft/IBA Settlement Agreement. At the completion of the deal, Macquarie will hold about 16% of the global healthcare information system supplier's issued capital.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
... resource stocks balanced out by stronger sectors of the market such as property trusts, financial services and the healthcare. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed half a point higher at 3389.0 while the all ordinaries index added 0.7 of a point to ...

Healthcare, biotechs seen as best Australian investments

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2004
Australia's healthcare and biotechnology sectors offered the best opportunities for investment, a prominent United States investor told a gathering in Los Angeles last week. Tom Lynch, managing director of Wilshire Associates' Private Equity Group ...

Labor undergone generational change: Latham

WITH AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2003
... a new generation," he told reporters. "A generation that has grown up aspiring to a good education in life and good healthcare for our children. "These are the things that must be available to all Australians." Mr Latham won the leadership ballot 47 ...

Midday market wrap: Shares, bonds both ease on stronger US data

... Blue lodged the prospectus today for its $2 billion float which is likely to take place before the end of the year. Healthcare and pharmaceuticals conglomerate Mayne Group today said it was budgeting for higher earnings in 2003/04 from its remaining ...