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Profits fly high on planes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... Future Directions Fund and MCG Wealth. IGAF said it diversifies its assets and geographical risk across Australia, Germany, Brazil, India, China, Canada, Spain and Saudi Arabia. IGAF recently announced it had increased the size of its portfolio to A$1billion. ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... oil prices gushing up. This was the prevailing thought when natural calamities in New Zealand, Australia, Japan and other Brazil (I think) sent food prices spiralling higher. These would lead to higher headline inflation and threaten to spill over into ...

Janus sifts through sectors for EM value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... discover the most valuable companies in each sector, wherever they may by based. The best brewery company may now be found in Brazil, the best copper mining firm in Mongolia or the most prolific manufacturer in Saudi Arabia, said Chammas. "You have to ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... economies... or Asia. But there's the other group of emerging markets... and its name is Latin America. Oh yeah, that spells Brazil to most. Yes Brazil - the land of surf, sea, sand and Mardi Gras. It might be surprising to those who haven't bothered ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... Consumers (2009) 1. United States 18.8 million barrels per day 2. China 8.3 3. Japan 4.4 4. India 3.1 5. Russia 2.7 6. Brazil 2.5 7. Germany 2.4 8. Saudi Arabia 2.4 9. Korea, South 2.2 10. Canada 2.2 11. Mexico 2.1 12. France 1.8 13. Iran 1.7 14. United ...

Hitting a BRIC wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... time has come as equity markets in the developed economies are starting to outperform those in the fast-growing BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India and China. Bloomberg reports that the MSCI World Index - the benchmark measure for developed equity markets' ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... improvement in the latest purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above 50 and rising ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) conveyed its disappointment over progress towards budget tightening in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Europe. While it lauded moves by Germany, France, Britain and Spain towards deficit reduction, it also warned ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... two years had largely been underwritten by strong expansions in the emerging world, specifically that of China, India, Brazil and Asian countries. This positive force is now coming under threat as emerging market central banks tighten their respective ...

Instos want more rewards for low-carbon assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... low-carbon economy. Within the group statement are investors from the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa, Brazil and Canada including European investors and US public pension funds and state treasurers. There are a number of Australian ...