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More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... Tension in the Middle East would cause oil prices to spike. And with BP still unable to plug its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, precious supply is being lost. Higher oil price equals higher cost of running factories - electricity -- and running vehicles ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
Australian shares are set to fall after Wall Street dropped on the possibility of criminal charges into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and ongoing concerns about Europe's financial sector. At 0746 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price ...

US consumers to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... they're multiplying..." (Grease). Europe and the euro. Fat finger. German ban on naked shorts. Spanish bank bailout. Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Tighter US financial regulation. And coming to a theatre near you...renewed tension in the Korean Peninsula ...

... and hires three to fill research

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... press statement. Before completing an MBA at Yale, he worked as a lawyer in acquisitions and investments for three years in Mexico City and then as an equity analyst at Deutsche Bank in the telecommunications and resource sectors. He transferred to Australia ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... examples of transparency in the world. The Future Fund scored nine out of a possible 10 along with South Korea's KIC, New Mexico's SWF and Wyoming's fund in the fourth quarter of 2009. A minimum rating of eight out of 10 is required to claim adequate ...

RARE eyes Indian and Mexican assets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... Infrastructure, which doubled its FUM from $834 million to $1.53 billion in 12 months, is buying up more assets in India and Mexico within its emerging markets portfolio. Sarah Shaw, senior investment analyst and portfolio manager - emerging markets ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... fund solely focused on investment opportunities in Mexican infrastructure projects, noted the statement. Roads and rail in Mexico, along with airports and ports, water and wastewater, energy and utilities and communications infrastructure will be some ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... Professional Confidence Survey show investors anticipate equities to rise in seven countries -- Brazil, Italy, UK, France, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland - in the next six months. Note that optimism is infectious and therefore, it would not be surprising ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... per cent more." The OECD said the only other OECD countries with worse poverty rates for retirees are Ireland, Korea and Mexico. To address the policy problems raised by the OECD, the government has already launched major reviews of the retirement income ...

LaSalle raises $400m in Mexican fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
The swine flu may have put a dampener on Mexico's local economy but that hasn't stopped LaSalle Investment Management from successfully raising $400 million in a fund that invests in Mexico's real estate market. LaSalle Mexico Fund was closed this month ...