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T.Rowe Price grows FUM ten-fold

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... markets, with a bias in the emerging markets sector. "What we've found since we've arrived in the Australian market is a huge amount of momentum& our global equity portfolio has grown from $300 million to over $3 billion since 2006," said Darren Hall ...

Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... Given the efforts the investment industry has gone to convincing governments and Treasury of this over many years, this is a huge victory for the Investment and Financial Services Association. "The Budget has delivered a progressive reduction in the ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... arising from a Budget Surplus expected to be around $22 billion and more than 1.5 per cent of GDP. The fund would also serve a huge political function is helping the government take the initiative to meet its huge infrastructure goals while also not ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... change has become a business reality, and executives should get ready for a major shift in the economy. The value at stake is huge," they said in a recent paper. The strategic impacts are so significant that the German government, a carbon reduction ...

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... slower growth strengthen the case to leave the current rate of 4 per cent unchanged. "The numbers out of Europe were not a huge surprise but still were very elevated, and I doubt policymakers took a lot of comfort in the inflation numbers," Gilmore said. ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... relationship with Australia was due to now-overturned agreement for Australia to sell them uranium for electricity generation. The huge growth of the Indian economy especially relative to developed countries is also causing exports to run ahead as while ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... than six times that, reveals the State Street Corporation pension industry Vision Report. This disparity illustrates the huge challenge in improving savings ratios even though the majority of liabilities are promised government benefits, they said. To ...

Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... In this context, encouraging older people to stay in the workforce even in a part-time and very casual capacity could have huge economic benefits - to the nation but also to their standard of living as well. The extra few years of letting compound interest ...

Aberdeen adds to fixed income Core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... other physical credit markets such as high yield, emerging markets and global credit," said Bradley. "You're not getting huge volatility because you're going in and out of sectors when you need to and the sectors are not very correlated to one another. ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... year overtaken Japan. Highlighting the US-China dichotomy further, while they are a major export market we offset this with huge US imports, often loaded up due to military purchases. The value of our China trade growing at 20 per cent annum just adds ...