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BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
The timing may be varied - as early as 2027 and not until 2050 - but there was almost universal consensus that their grouping would eventually supplant the Group of 7 (G7) as the richest countries in the world. You guessed it Virginia, these are the ...

AMP's Charter names advice award winners

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... Bateman served on the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) Board for 13 years and is a former State and National President. He has also been recognised by the Rotary Club for his services to his local community. The National Value of Advice winner ...

Michael Hintze to join Financial Systems Inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... commentator on global finance will also join the panel. The Hong-Kong based Sheng is a Distinguished Fellow and former President of the Fung Global Institute, a Hong Kong based global think tank, and has previously held senior positions in the Hong Kong ...

International capital requirements could cripple insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Australian officials in Canberra, ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit that will be held in Brisbane in November. GFIA chair and president of the Canadian Health and Life Insurance Association Frank Swedlove told journalists in Sydney that the proposal "does ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... messages telegraphed by the Fed before the meeting. So now all's well, back to data watching... and eyeballing Putin. President Obama has just announced that the US is expanding the list of "pillow" sanctioned Russian official - including a Russian bank ...

AMP Capital expands US and UK-based infra team

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2014
... it looks to further fundraising. In London, Emma Haight joins the team as director from NIBC Bank where she was vice president in the project finance division and a lead negotiator on infrastructure transactions. Haight has held similar roles at Nur ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... The sharemarket is flat in early trade as investors ignore positive offshore leads. US stocks moved higher as Russian President Vladimir Putin's comments that he had no designs on a larger break-up of Ukraine eased investor tensions. But there was no ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Certainly, markets are happy that the tension hasn't escalated beyond what the US and Europe calls "sanctions" and Russian President Putin's seeming backdown when he told Parliament that his adventure stops with Crimea. "We don't want to split up Ukraine ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... moved one step closer to joining Russia Monday as its parliament formally requested Moscow annex the area and Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognized the Crimean region of Ukraine as a sovereign independent state following the "will of ...

HESTA non-committal on Transfield divestment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... Island detention centre, which Transfield runs. Speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, the ASU's NSW/ACT president Sally McManus said ASU's contingent of welfare workers were "not impressed that Transfield, which has no background or expertise ...