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Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Government of Singapore Investment Corp and an unidentified Middle Eastern investor (rumoured to be a state controlled fund from Oman) have chipped in $11.6 billion in capital into UBS to lift it out of the sub-prime funding jungle. This is the latest ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... to make our economic expansion sustainable," said Shri Pawan Kumar Pansal, Minister of State for Finance in the Government of India. The Minister said they expect 30 per cent of this funding to come from foreign direct investors, 10 per cent from the ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
Scores of US government officials along with housing executives vowed it could never happen, nonetheless, the national median price of American homes is expected to fall for the first time since statistics began in 1950. Economists forecast the decline ...

QIC awards $570m mandate to US endowment fund

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... Westpac chief executive officer, Bob Joss, and Dr Tony Tan, the executive director and co-deputy chairman of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC)." QIC currently manages more than $55 billion.

Government offers industry the simple life

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Advisers will be able to offer simplified records of advice to clients investing less than $15,000, while businesses can post annual reports and new or revised product information online, under proposed new Simpler Regulatory System reforms. The bill ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) estimates that the total cost of unnecessary and duplicate superannuation accounts is $315 million per year, a fraction of the $2 billion figure by consumer group CHOICE. The findings were ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
The just released National Australian Bank Monthly Business Survey for December 2006 has noted that although business conditions remain strong there has been some softening from the strong levels reported in the previous quarter. NAB says that weaker ...

Former Treasury head to be Westpac chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Westpac Banking Corporation's board of directors have appointed former Commonwealth Treasury head Ted Evans as chairman to replace Leon Davis, effective March 2007. In the interim Evans has been appointed deputy chairman to assist with a smooth transition. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... councils that were set up to monitor and develop national training packages given annual funding from the Federal government of $15 million is again being debated with the Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group Heather Ridout claiming that ...