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Australia to host international advice meeting

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013

More taper talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013

Global aged care specialists eye Aussie market

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... that provides home-care services. The firm started 17 years ago and it has expanded to other countries such as the China, Brazil, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Some company executives traveled recently to Australia to have a first feel of the market. "The ...

Service consumption bucks downward trend in EM equities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... provision, private education, university tuition and the provision of pensions in areas such as the Middle East, Russia and Brazil. The figures show huge potential for growth in these sectors. In Brazil, the government spends $900 per capita on health ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... performance. Whitehaven was down 2.5 cents, or 1.28 per cent, at $1.935. Westfield Group has sold its 50 per cent stake in its Brazil joint venture to the Almeida Junior Family for an undisclosed sum. Westfield was up three cents at $11.61.

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... report issued by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTD). The report was published ahead of the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit to be held in Durban, South Africa, at the end of this month. It ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... economic growth that underlines all these - they're not as strong as they used to be. In the year to the fourth quarter 2012, Brazil's GDP grew by 1.4%, down from its pre-GFC high of 6.6%. Russian GDP expanded by a mere 3.4% in Q3 2012, the Indian economy ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... 0.15 per cent, to 5,123.1 points. NEW YORK - US stocks closesd higher after central banks in Europe, Britain, Japan and Brazil held off from further loosening already accommodative monetary policies despite facing weak growth. The Dow Jones Industrial ...

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... impoverished political base". And why not? The Venezuelan economy has grown faster than its bigger Latin American neighbours, Brazil and Mexico. Latest available figures show Venezuela's GDP expanded by 5.2% in the year to the third quarter of last year ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... funds can only invest in domestic private equity and can't allocate capital to international private equity funds. However, Brazil funds can allocate up to 20 per cent of their total assets to private equity funds previously approved by the National ...