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Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... transparency index has found that Australia's $66 billion Future Fund is slightly less transparent than SWFs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), New Zealand and Azerbaijan. The SWF Institute has developed the Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index, which ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
... funds in Mexico, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, Korea, Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... KONG - Hong Kong shares rebounded 3.25 per cent as fears over Dubai's debt problems receded following a move by the United Arab Emirates' central bank to provide extra liquidity. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed 687 points higher at 21,821.5. WELLINGTON ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... famous risks becoming just a sand pit. In one tourism website Dubai boasts of being "the second largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates. The city of Dubai is the second largest developing city in the world after Shanghai, with enormous construction ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... disorderly...look out below! There may be some truth after all in the unsourced UK press report that China, Russia, the Gulf Arab States, and France convened a secret meeting to develop a multi-year plan to dump the US currency and replace it with a ...

BNP increases stake in Indian mega broker

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... network includes online, telephone and more than 500 offices across India. Geojit BNP Paribas also has a presence in the United Arab Emirates through a joint venture with Barjeel Geojit Securities and in Saudi Arabia via Aloula Geojit Brokerage Company. ...

Malaysia tops shariah funds list

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
Malaysia may have overtaken Saudi Arabia to boast the highest number of shariah funds in the world - but the Asian Islamic country has a long way to go in building up assets for each of its 145 funds, according to a new report. November figures from ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... the Gulf Cooperative Countries namely the Persian Gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. "Although the economic slowdown across the world does not portray a very optimistic picture for oil prices, we believe ...

New dynamics, new realities: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
Timor-Leste president and Nobel Peace laureate Dr Jose Ramos-Horta told delegates at the annual ASFA conference to prepare for the "new economic realities", where countries often overlooked in global policy-making such as Saudi Arabia, India and South ...

Dubai to swoop in bad market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Dubai International Financial Sector governor believes the global financial crisis will strengthen the United Arab Emirates' position as an economic and investment hub. Speaking at the Financial Times /Dubai International Financial Centre World ...