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Punishing Putin (harder)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB) -- Putin told reporters in Brazil that: "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

Life's a bargain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... from attending the negotiations and eventual launched of the BRICS' "New Development Bank (NDB), Putin told reporters in Brazil that, "Sanctions have a boomerang effect and without any doubt they will push U.S.-Russian relations into a dead end, and ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... one day we'll get to the end of this "considerable period". But "no woman, no cry", more money's coming for the BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa - has just built what I call the "R5 - renminbi, rupee, rubble, real, rand - Bank". Which ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... third of respondents said that China would deliver real growth over the next three years, whereas only 15% thought that Brazil would. In the same way, nearly half of respondents believe China will push forward with economic reform, but only 6% think ...

ASX considers UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has said it is 'considering the progress' of the United Nations' 'Sustainable Stock Exchanges' (SSE) initiative, following news that the London Stock Exchange has become the tenth exchange to sign up to the program. ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... lifted the country's rating one notch above investment grade from BBB- to BBB with a stable outlook - now higher than India, Brazil, Spain and Russia. According to Standard & Poor's, "We raised the ratings because we now believe the ongoing reforms to ...

Macquarie Bank names managing director

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... 1997 and became group treasurer in June 2011 before he was appointed CFO of the group in December 2011. Elsewhere, Ben Brazil, co-head of corporate and asset finance (CAF), will also join the executive committee from 1 July. Brazil joined in 1994 and ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Group of 7 (G7) as the richest countries in the world. You guessed it Virginia, these are the BRICs - the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. They were all the rage back then, back when they were defying the gravity of the GFC and the European ...

APRA gets Basel III tick

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... regulatory framework to be graded by the Basel Committee. Others include the United States, the European Union, Japan and Brazil. The Basel Committee said: "Australia's implementation of the Basel capital framework was found to be closely aligned with ...

Australia's pension pool fastest growing in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Asset Study 2014. The study showed found that the pool of assets has grown by 14% a year since the end of 2003, ahead of Brazil's pool, which has grown by 13.1%. However, the rate of growth slowed considerably compared to last year, adding just US$9 ...