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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... to $46.45 on the company's announcement it will invest $US319 million ($A310.51 million) in its Escondida copper mine in Chile. Mr Saffer said the miner's announcement late on Wednesday that its planned Olympic Dam expansion had reached feasbility stage ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... comparable to other countries. In South Africa, for example, pension fund assets are estimated at about one third of GDP. In Chile, pension funds assets are at about two thirds of GDP, while in Australia, super fund assets are about equal to GDP.

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... of how it exercises its proxy voting rights in Australia. Topping the index and scoring the highest scores possible were Chile's SWF, UAE-based Mubadala, Singapore's Temasek, Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global and the New Zealand Superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... weak banks, as metals prices jumped sharply on fears of disruption to copper supplies after the devastating earthquake in Chile. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares finished up 51.42 points, or 0.96 per cent, at 5,405.94 points. FRANKFURT ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Australian and New Zealand insurance business to ANZ, sold their Chilean annuity and mortgage business to Corp Group Vida Chile SA, and sold ING Canada. Driving this pruning down of ING to its core is their "Back to Basics" program, announced last month ...

Bullish bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Forty years ago today, what was thought beyond the realms of human possibility became reality. Man landed on the moon. No one also imagined Professor Nouriel Roubini turning into a bull. For as long as I care to remember Professor Nouriel Roubini was ...

BNP Paribas taps Chile market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has bought a more than 49 per cent stake in the Chilean based Banco del Estado de Chile (BancoEstado) asset management subsidiary Administradora General de Fondos. The Chilean bank has developed a significant asset management ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... income in the wake of the global financial crisis. CPAA, the umbrella body representing the equivalent of pension funds in Chile (called AFPs), has released a report this month to remind its members that investing is long-term and history will prove ...

SWFs finalise principles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... principles which aim to shed some light on the investment activities of the sector. Speaking at a Ministry of Finance of Chile conference, John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of IMF said the International Working Group (IWG) had agreed upon a ...