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Diamonds are a fund's best friends

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... of up to US$250 million for institutional investors. The firm has signed a deal with Canadian diamond miner and retailer, Harry Winston Diamond Corp to supply the polished gems. Harry Winston, which has a 40 per cent stake in Canada's massive Diavik ...

Media Super wants corporate marriage

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... to come on board." But while Media Super is dressing for the merger market, it is not interested in every Tom, Dick and Harry. Martin said his scheme - the only industry fund in its sector - would stick to media and avoid external funds such as AustralianSuper ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
"Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?" -Dirty Harry Certainly that punk Queen Qaddafi is not feeling lucky. So is Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman (that other oil producer) -- the Jasmine Revolutionaries are now marching in his Kingdom. Their subjects ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... more 'in the rough' and local investors can get their hands on it through a Zurich-based firm with links to famous jeweler Harry Winston, which visited Melbourne last month to scope the local market. Diamond Asset Advisors gives investors exposure to ...

Cycling up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... shrank by 504,000 to its lowest level since 1984. Workers are discouraged from looking for work, there's none to find. "Happy Harry's" retort that the much smaller than expected increase in jobs during the month was due to businesses temporarily closing ...

Santa's in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... be outdone, America is also playing Santa - and its Santa is bigger than Australia's. Because its not only Tom, Dick and Harry that would benefit from Santa Obama but the rest of the world. There was worldwide cheer when Santa Obama announced that he's ...

FSC appoints new chair

FSC ANNOUNCEMENT  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... Financial Services Association to the Financial Services Council," Mr Maher said. Resigning from the FSC were directors Harry Stout, chief executive, ING Australia, and Peter Promnitz, region head, Asia Pacific, Mercer, due to separate overseas commitments. ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... 16.3 per cent in 1931 and reached 25.1 per cent in 1933. I could almost hear China repeating that American icon's - Dirty Harry - words back to the US. "You've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

Big four banks have Gen Y appeal: study

NEW RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... as Gen Xs (between 31 and 50) to special offers on transaction accounts, and nearly four times more than retirees," said Harry Senlitonga, senior analyst at Datamonitor, and author of the report. The study also found that the decisions made by Gen Y ...

Govt is longevity insurer of last resort

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... security, particularly as the Government is the longevity insurer of the last resort, said outgoing ING Australia chief, Harry Stout. Speaking at a Financial Services Council plenary session yesterday, Stout said taking a portion of members' super balance ...