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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... $115.72. Rio Tinto has signed agreements with the world's largest copper producer, CODELCO, to explore for the base metal in Chile. The agreements cover the Esteli prospect in northern Chile, and the Paloma prospect near the El Tesoro mine and the BHP ...

Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... "Australia is a mature market. It has been really picked over. We are putting money into things like hydro projects in Brazil and Chile. It doesn't help that government here has set such a modest target for alternative energy. "The explosion of funds ...

IFSA backs Chile FTA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) welcomed the Rudd Government's completion of a Free Trade Agreement with Chile, a destination previously only accessible by US companies. Richard Gilbert, IFSA chief executive, said the agreement would ...

Norway revises pension investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... - Global's exposure to emerging markets will be broadened to include "second tier" emerging countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, India, Morocco, Russia and Mexico. The portfolio's allocation to emerging markets will be boosted to 10 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... Friday, Rio Tinto announced a joint venture with the world's largest copper producer, CODELCO, to explore for copper in Chile. Australian financial markets were closed yesterday for the Australia Day public holiday. On Friday, markets finished in the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... Rio said it had formed a joint venture with the world's largest copper producer, CODELCO, to explore for the red metal in Chile. US stocks rose 0.9 per cent after the government said 117 million US families would receive a tax rebate cheque in a move ...

EM property posts Q4 boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... the UK reported losses of up to 32 per cent. The quarter's biggest winner was Egypt, which returned 198 per cent trumping Chile, Malaysia, and China, all of which gained more than 50 per cent. To put in context however, Mark Wist, director at Property ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... cap of US$2.1 trillion. The S&P/IFCI Large-MidCap Shariah index focuses on emerging markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland ...

Chilean pension system faces reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
Low returns, the prospect of lower than expected retirement incomes and undercoverage among the poor and self-employed is forcing the Chilean Government to review its compulsory system. To conduct the review, a special investigatory commission to be ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
... the March quarter of 2006. About 12 per cent of those interviewed expect to decrease staff numbers. Australia's trade with Chile, which totalled $343 million during 2005-06, is expected to increase given the intention of both countries to examine a free ...