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Ascalon fund cashes in on low carbon world

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... energy space, launching a retail version of Arkx Investment Management's clean energy fund to capitalise on low carbon economies. The Arkx Global Clean Energy Fund will focus on listed companies that operate within the clean energy sector, such as solar ...

Merged LGsuper fund born today

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... David Todd, chief executive officer of the merged entity which will retain the name of LGsuper, said the merger provided economies of scale. "The merger provides the scale to remain competitive, continually improve our products and services and maintain ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... the lowest of all AAA rated countries. "This is partly due to the good fortune of being highly leveraged to the Asian economies, particularly China," he said. "As a result our economy has performed relatively well and didn't incur serious public debt ...

IMF elects new chair

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... the trend to lose 0.48 per cent. Many fear that a default in Greece could lead to similar problems in other eurozone economies and potentially cause another global financial crisis. Shares in European banks, many of which are exposed to Greek debt, have ...

Asian private wealth tops Europe

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... certain as the extent of emerging market opportunities will depend on whether those markets can push to new highs while economies are being weaned off government stimulus."

Australian Unity possible merger

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... mergers, that of LifePlan Building Society becoming part of Big Sky and Big Sky becoming part of the AU group. "There's economies of scale, but this is about opportunities cost not cost savings, what we are looking at is how do we accelerate the growth ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... tradeable products, focusing on blue chip African companies, as well as offshore firms with significant exposure to African economies. To qualify for the index, stocks must have a market capitalisation of over US$200 million and an average daily traded ...

Fin Svcs Asian opportunity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... respectively. "While this was surprising, given the state of the US economy when compared to the robust nature of Asian economies, it shows that tradition and history still play a major part in Australian professionals choices, with old favourites London ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... back again. There'll be more selling down the road. But this does not mean that I've given up on the US and the global economies. It's just the way of the markets -- they never go up or down in a straight line. The stats: The Dow closed 0.6 per cent ...