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Austerity can be hazardous to your health

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

ANZ appoints global banking MD

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... a number of senior roles in wealth management, including head of financial intermediaries Asia Pacific, country head Indonesia and regional sales manager South-East Asia. "Fred is a career banker with extensive international experience in both wealth ...

Australian Islamic finance presents opportunities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
Less than one per cent of investment products in Australia are Shariah compliant, suggesting huge opportunities for fund managers blazing the trail in this segment. The Muslim Community Co-operative Australia manages a Shariah compliant property income ...

Islamic finance forum to discuss Shariah growth opps

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... around $1 trillion worth of Shariah compliant assets available worldwide, as at April 2012 and the likes of Malaysia, Indonesia, Qatar, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates' governments continue to issue investment grade Shariah bonds. To benefit from the ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... rating and gloomy economic prospects. The top ESG underweights for emerging markets were the Philippines, Colombia and Indonesia. For developed markets, Japan was the largest underweight largely due to governance issues, while sovereigns with high quality ...

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... in 2013, much lower than our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even basic measures like ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... nationality I choose. Philippine GDP jumped by a better than expected 7.1% in the year to the third quarter - better than Indonesia's 6.2%, Malaysia's 5.2%, Vietnam's 4.7% and Thailand's 3.0%. More, according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... since June, it accelerated for the first time in four months in India, increased in South Korea and further expanded in Indonesia. In America, the Institute of Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index rose to 51.7 in October - the highest since ...

Future Fund tarred by its tobacco stocks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
An otherwise robust performance by the Future Fund was undermined this week when its senior executives were forced to justify their tobacco investments before a Senate Committee. Appearing before the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Senate ...