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Indonesia VP attends Melb investor forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... forum in Melbourne today, reinforcing growing speculation that Australian pension funds are readying to invest into the country. The VP's visit follows a series of briefings for Australian, US and European pension funds and investment consultants that ...

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... economies. It will grow faster than Germany, Japan, France and Canada next year, according to growth estimates from each country's central bank". I can't blame Mark Carney for glowing...and gloating. "For the first time in a long time, you don't have ...

Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... name on it. The latest typhoon - Super Typhoon Yolanda - takes the total number of tropical depressions that battered the country this year to 24...and another one - Zoraida - is, according to reports, due to hit this day....and it'll hit the same region ...

Former AIST boss joins Eaton Vance

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... executive officer of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST). Working alongside Eaton Vance Australia's country head Nicholas Allen and marketing and business development manager Louise Bradshaw, Gibbs will act in a senior consulting ...

Market Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... companies, fell 35 cents, or more than 25 per cent, to $1.02 after it announced a massive earnings downgrade. Shares in the country's largest beef producer, Australian Agricultural Company, were down four cents, or 3.5 per cent, to $1.08 after it announced ...

Government removes self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
... executive Brad Fox said that the change "is a positive, practical move." "It is time Australia relied less on being the lucky country and applied ourselves more to becoming a smart country," he said. "Investing in self-education is a core element of ...

Financial Standard unveils Digital Dozen in social media

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2013

China's party plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... what analysts said was a stark "revising away" of a tourism-led summer breather. The key unemployment rate across the 17-country currency area hit a record 12.2 per cent in September, with about 19.5 million people classed as jobless by European Union ...

LUCRF Super joins global calls to improve worker safety

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
... in signing the Investor Statement on Bangladesh, calling for workplace reform in garment factories in the South Asian country. Behind China, Bangladesh is the second largest garment manufacturer in the world and the industry has seen massive growth over ...