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Towers Perrin merges with Watson Wyatt

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... operate in four geographic locations including North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific and Latin America. The firm will focus on three segments; benefits, talent and rewards and risk and financial services. The statement said ...

S&P launches risk controlled indices

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... at Standard & Poor's Index Services. "With risk controlled indices already based upon the S&P BRIC 40 Index, S&P Latin America 40 Index, S&P South East Asia 40 Index, and S&P Global Infrastructure Index, Standard & Poor's is the only index provider to ...

ING IM backs Asian bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... means that the reward in relation to risk is markedly lower at the moment than that of the bonds of countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe," the report said. "Emerging countries used to be included in an equity or bond portfolio only ...

China and India investment themes remain: Actis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2009
... last year, emerging market private equity firm Actis is searching for the best buys across Africa, China, India, Latin America and South East Asia. Paul Fletcher, Actis senior partner, said the firm is adopting a "wait and see" approach to all investment ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... told it that the US central bank will be doling out greenbacks - enough to buy several countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America or Asia or two Australias. Or if you want to spread your risk and diversify, a combination of countries in each continent. ...

Developing Asia worst hit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... GDP in developing Asia in 2007, versus 250 per cent in 2003. By contrast, the ratio only rose by 30 per cent in Latin America with the result that estimated losses on financial assets were a much lower $2.1 trillion, or 57 per cent of GDP. "This is by ...

Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the Asian financial crisis of 1998 spread to the economies of Latin America and Russia. The Australian economy slowed but avoided a recession when the dotcom bubble burst, when September 11 threatened ...

BNP Paribas taps Chile market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... Paribas Investment Partners chair and chief executive, said the acquisition would strengthen the firm's presence in Latin America where it already manages more than $24 billion in assets through its various subsidiaries. He said the partnership would ...

Hedge funds post worst Q1

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... to reduce risk again and take losses [as] emerging market equities lost 10.99 per cent with Asia underperforming Latin America and emerging Europe."

New CEOs for Skandia, Intech

Skandia's chief executive Ross Laidlaw is leaving for Sweden - placing the Australian business in the hands of two separate chief executives for its platform and asset management arms. Laidlaw, who set up Skandia's Australian business seven years ago ...