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QIC consortium buys $1.78bn gas facility

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... binding agreement to acquire the Iona Gas Storage Facility west of Melbourne in Victoria from EnergyAustralia, a member of the China Light & Power Group. The consortium, comprising the QIC Global Infrastructure Fund (QGIF) and QIC clients, will acquire ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
It could be because of China's one-week hiatus or the Fed's decision to maintain policy settings where they are or the resurgence in equity and commodity markets or all of the above but it seems the times. they're not a-changin'. This, at least, could ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... increasing internet accessibility and the rapid adoption of mobile payments. In particular, 2014 cashless payment volumes in China are predicted to surpass those in Germany, the UK, France, and South Korea. The report says hidden payments, or payments ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
Like the energizer bunny, China keeps on going and going... and going. Certainly, concerns are mounting over the Middle Kingdom's slowing economy in recent months but even the IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- released 6 October -- ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... Asia-Pacific." FSC chief executive Sally Loane said the agreement complements free trade agreements with Japan, Korea and China and is a positive step in the right direction for financial services trade as Australia transforms into a services-based economy. ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... thus working well for equity investors too, and should continue to do so in our view." The global investment committee said China does not appear to be in an overall hard landing despite struggling to transition to a more balanced economy. "Certainly ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... financial markets were doing backflips again overnight on concerns over dropping commodity prices on concerns over slowing China. Those concerns grew after Beijing's National Bureau of Statistics reported that declining producer prices, reduced investment ...

ASX to set up shop in Hong Kong

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... companies to potential investors for the last eight years. In 2014, ASX launched a renminbi settlement service with the Bank of China and in early 2015 signed an MOU with the China Futures Association.

AMP China Fund changes "too weak": unit holders

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
The largest independent unit holder of the China Growth Fund (AGF) has labeled AMP Capital's effort to reduce the discount "extremely disappointing and too weak." LIM Advisors is directly contacting other unit holders of the fund as it considers that ...