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New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... negotiate a lower tax rate. According to the Commonwealth Treasury, 11 countries have resource royalty regimes but five - Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and South Africa - have super profit components albeit defined differently with varying threshold ...

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... audited annual reports, investment strategy and portfolio updates. The institute has modeled the index' principles on the Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global, which it said is one of the best examples of transparency in the world. The Future Fund ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... overseas. CF Industries made another offer for fertiliser maker Terra Industries, which last month agreed to be sold to Norway's Yara for $US4.1 billion. Technology stocks got a boost from Qualcomm Inc, which boosted its dividend by 12 per cent. The ...

Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
The $430 billion Norwegian Government Pension fund has selected European responsible investment house, GES Investment Services, to screen its fixed income and equities portfolios for tobacco and weapons criteria. The research mandate means GES will ...

Norwegian pension excludes tobacco firms

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Souza Cruz SA, Universal Corp VA and Reynolds American Inc are among those excluded from the fund's investment universe. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global is a very active responsible investor. Last year, the fund placed the European engineering ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... nothing and watch as the economy crumbles? And low interest rates? What happened when the Fed begins lifting? Australia and Norway have started moving up interest rates. There are still many unknowns and 'what ifs' and there will always be. For now ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 2,313 57 138 37.5 AA+ 12. Greece 505 47 135 90.1 A- 13. Sweden 664 73 129 36.5 AAA 14. Finland 329 62 116 33.0 AAA 15. Norway 552 118 114 52.0 AAA 16. Italy 2,359 41 98 103.7 A+ 17. United States 13,627 44 95 60.7 AAA 18. Australia 764 36 71 15.4 AAA ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... monetary authorities' helicopters. A check on The Economist's Economic and Financial Indicators table shows that apart from Norway, all 43 countries in its list are forecast to record budget deficits this year. I have even written about this late last ...

Norway SWF adopts ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
One of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, Norway's Government Pension Fund - Global is putting more emphasis on responsible investing with tighter regulations on environmental, social and good corporate governance. The fund previously had two ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... world are not sitting by watching their economies sink. And they'll 'do what is necessary.' Just last week, Bank Indonesia, Norway's Norges Bank and the Bank of England all cut their key interest rates by 50 bps to 8.25 per cent, 2.5 per cent and 1 per ...