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Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... start building because they know they can be trusted." Is Modi India's investment guru? The election of Narendra Modi as Indian Prime Minister in May 2014 captured the imagination of millions of people all over the world. This was the first time in thirty ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... filtering through into the economy. The "transmission mechanism" the RBI governor spoke about. Latest data show that the Indian economy expanded by 7.5% in the year to the March quarter, up from 6.6% in the last quarter of 2014. Yes, you got that right ...

India multi asset fund to list on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... subscription of $35 million and has Morgans as its lead manager. The proposed LIC will allow Australian investors access to the Indian economy through a mix of equities and fixed income securities. The portfolio targets growth through stocks listed on ...

PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... where he explored the underground jazz scene, Forster landed in London, where he soon found a job at ANZ Grindlays Bank, an Indian private bank that had been acquired by Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) in 1984. On his first week, he was ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... enthusiasm among politicians and citizens that for a few days all we could see in the media was his friendly, bearded smile. Indian citizens in Australia were so excited about attending his first public address in Sydney that a special train, the 'Modi ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Future Fund managing director David Neal has expressed concern at the lack of safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian investment professionals are among the most pessimistic in the world when it comes to expectations of future employment, with nearly a quarter saying that the situation is getting worse, the CFA Institute found. The 2015 Global Market Sentiment ...

IFM acquires US$5.7 billion highway

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
IFM Investors has acquired 100% of the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company (ITRCC), which operates the Indiana Toll Road (ITR), for US$5.7 billion. The ITR spans northern Indiana to the Illinois state line and runs for 253 km. It connects highways ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... any policy action should be anticipatory", along with easing inflation, is how RBI governor Raghuram Rajan explained the Indian central bank's decision to reduce its main repurchase rate by 25 bps to 7.5% yesterday. The move followed a similar 25 bps ...

That other surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2015
... 2013 to US$61 in December 2014, it's not difficult to extrapolate the flow on effects of these onto its inflation stats. Indian inflation has dropped from last year's high of 8.8% -- the RBI's target is 6% -- to 5.0% in December. Now who're those peddling ...