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Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... services and insurance industries contribute more to percentage growth in the Australian economy than mining and natural resources, according to CommSec's Craig James. Sensing that delegates at the annual Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) National ...

Canadian pension fund to buy UK soccer centres

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... (A$11.5bn) and has been an active dealmaker recently, with investments focusing largely on global real estate, natural resources and infrastructure. The New South Wales state government recently said that it has banked more than $300 million from the ...

Aust lags in financial job market

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... number of opportunities in Q2, the average for the region was a 14%. Growth in Australian jobs was confined to natural resources and infrastructure, although small-scale redundancies continued particularly in research roles. Financial planning and superannuation ...

Mercer acquires Sovereign

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... expert Mike Forestner. Private markets assets encompass unlisted assets such as private equity, infrastructure, natural resources and real estate.

Australia lags on commodities investments

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
Despite an economic reliance on natural resources, Australia has lagged other developed markets in commodities investments, according to S&P Indices. "We tend to look at the market and think, well, if we've got BHP and Rio then we've got enough in direct ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... present them with accumulation oriented products and investment strategies. "There are three kinds of SWFs - natural resources funds (eg Abu Dhabi and Kuwait), foreign reserve funds (eg China and Singapore), and pension reserve funds (eg Australia and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
... Materials and financial companies fell the most. Morgan Stanley fell eight per cent and coal producer Alpha Natural Resources fell eight per cent. Markets fear that a chaotic default by either Greece or Italy would lead to huge losses for European banks. ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... from the sector, only slightly ahead of the 26% return from private equity. Meanwhile physical assets including natural resources like timberland and direct property achieved 18%. Other strong performing asset classes were public commodities earning ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... investing mainly in start-ups and the Global Resource Masters Fund diversifying into agricultural commodities and natural resources such as forest products. Global Mining Investments was thus the only LIC that specialized in large global producers, he ...

S&P looks to Africa as investment grows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... purely in Africa or derive over 50 per cent of their revenues from the continent. "Rising global demand for natural resources, improvements in infrastructure and the emergence of the consumer classes have turned Africa into an increasingly popular destination ...