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AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... 1.3 per cent, hurt by lower oil prices and by worry that sanctions on Russia will curtail the oil giant's plans in the country. LONDON - European stock markets have closed the week mixed, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index inching up 0.11 per cent ...

Aussie bitcoin platform launches in UAE

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... Arab Emirates. The company claimed the new platform will allow ex-pats living in the UAE but sending money out of the country to save up to 7 or 8% in international transaction costs and currency exchange. Igot founder Rick Day said: "The UAE is a natural ...

CBRE promotes two senior execs to head retail investments team

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... approach our institutional clients have to retail property and are harnessing the skill sets we have developed across the country to ensure we have a marketing leading platform and can deliver the optimum results for our retail clients," CBRE president ...

Hawks Nest is Australia's oldest town

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... Australia's oldest average residents, giving a glimpse to how some communities will look when retirees begin to dominate the country. A report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has found that while Australia's median age is 37 the median ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... likes my buts around here. There were 'buts' a-plenty after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released this "lucky country's' economic scorecard for the second quarter. Australian real GDP advanced by 0.5% in the three-months to June and 3.1% ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... increase in offshore purchases - led by imports of oil and gas (due to the shutdown of its nuclear reactors) - widened the country's trade deficit to A¥964 billion (US$9.4 billion) from A¥822 billion in the previous month and would detract from third ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... kinder surprises here, given the significant deterioration in the Brazilian economy in recent years. Annual growth in the country's GDP has slowed from the mid to high digits of 2010 to only 1.9% in the first quarter of 2014. Financial markets expect ...

Netwealth overhauls adviser technology

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... financial planning software to a new level. We presently provide our Model Office Solution to over 500 users across the country and all advisers have an opportunity to migrate to this program," he said. Netwealth has increased resources in its technology ...

EQT adds Dundas Global Equity to mFund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... volatility. The fund aims to deliver rolling five-year returns in excess of 2.5% of the capital return of the MSCI All Country World Index (ex Australia) before fees. "With the addition of the EQT Dundas Global Equity Fund investors now have access to ...

Voya appoints head of emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
... strategy across all fixed income asset classes in emerging markets including sovereign and corporate debt, macro analysis, country research, sovereign risk, currencies. He reports to the company's head of public fixed income Matt Toms. Voya IM is represented ...