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Another LIC fails

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... million will be paid to investors as a return of capital before 31 August after considering a number of factors including Indian equity market fluctuations and exchange rates. The proposed return of capital was first announced on 21 May and followed ...

India Equities Fund proposes return of capital

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2010
John Pereira, chief executive of the India Equities Fund, has not ruled out launching another Indian equities strategy but said he is more concerned with meeting existing shareholders and returning capital to investors. According to an ASX statement ...

India Equities puts cash to work

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
The India Equities fund has increased its exposure to the Indian finance sector by including Allahabad Bank into the portfolio as its tilt to the country's energy sector falls. The fund has more than $71 million invested across 58 Indian equities. An ...

While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... Household spending increased by 1.7 per cent in January - the sixth straight month of increases. And our other neighbours? The Indian government expects its economy to grow by 9 per cent in fiscal year 2010 supported by higher industrial production and ...

RARE eyes Indian and Mexican assets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
RARE Infrastructure, which doubled its FUM from $834 million to $1.53 billion in 12 months, is buying up more assets in India and Mexico within its emerging markets portfolio. Sarah Shaw, senior investment analyst and portfolio manager - emerging markets ...

No easy gains in Indian equities: Pereira

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
The Indian share market will be a stockpicker's market after the index returned the strongest gains in Asia last year, said one fund manager. John Pereira, managing director at India Equities Fund, said the Indian market posted the third strongest market ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... record 57.4 in January form 56.1 in the previous month and export sales reportedly surged at a "near-record rate." Because Indian manufacturing activity is expanding. The HSBC Markit PMI climbed to its highest level in one-and-half years to 57.6 last ...

T. Rowe Price buys $19.7 bn Indian manager

COMPANY RELEAE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
T. Rowe Price Group has bought a 26 per cent stake in India's fourth largest asset manager, UTI Asset Management, for more than $157 million. The deal, which also includes the UTI Trustee Company, was completed after T. Rowe Price bought a 6.5 per cent ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... exports would grow along with it. Good news for Australia. More good news for Australia. India is also growing...strongly. Indian real GDP expanded by 7.9 per cent in the year to the third quarter - much, much higher than market predictions for growth ...