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LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Super funds hit back at anti-carbon tax groups

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... said that emissions coverage and financial scale of climate change action by China, the European Union, the United States, Brazil and many other countries dwarfs that by Australia, in line with the relative size of their economies. The ACCI was contacted ...

Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... crisis sees Latin America shape up to an attractive investment outlook. Generally regarded for its dependency on exports, Brazil in particular is coming more into the investor eye. The nation will soon be hosting the World Cup and the Olympics, with ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
The Australian stock market was lower at noon after local inflation data sent the Australian dollar higher, and as the US debt ceiling stalemate continued. At 1200 AEST on Wednesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 20.2 points, or 0.44 per cent ...

Food profits to rise: Macquarie

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... had actually risen along with prices in the past year, he told a Sydney media luncheon. And the competitive threat from Brazil had been neutralised as the US dollar had weakened against the Brazilian Real, he said. The fund owns 31,500sq km of Australian ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... expected commodity prices to top out, helping emerging market stocks rally. "Most people aren't really aware that China and Brazil underperformed the S&P by about 30 per cent in the last 15 months," he said. Even though those economies had been growing ...

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 ...