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Olympus and Contango explore India

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... gates of India's investment market to Australian investors. Contango recently acquired a 64 per cent stake in Olympus, an Indian investment specialist fund manager. "Contango's mandate is to invest in emerging fund managers, and we fit into their criteria ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... upsetting our major trading partner. And it magnifies the importance of the fracas over Australia's poor treatment of the Indian cricketers. Whoever said sport, politics and business don't mix obviously has no idea about what drives Australia's econo ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... foreign direct investors, 10 per cent from the World Bank and similar sources, leaving nearly two-thirds to come from the Indian public sector whose tax revenues are currently growing at 25 per cent annually. Far from being wary of this foreign involvement ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... he was less inclined and he lead the country to becoming much more lasse faire," said M N Chaini, vice president of the Indian Merchant's Chamber who is also president of corporate affairs for Reliance Industries, one of India's leading diversified company ...

Bombay Stock Exchange leads governance reforms

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The Indian stock market has grown six-fold in four years and current sentiment is for it to keep going, but a big question for Australian investors is whether its governance mechanisms can absorb the explosive growth and maintain market integrity. Raising ...

India calls for better financial services

ALEX DUNNIN IN MUMBAI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
... recreation and lifestyle products, said Nitin Jain, vice president of equities funds management at Kotak Mahindra, a leading Indian investment house now extending its reach across the Asian region. Jain said Indians spend only two per cent of their income ...

Macq heads deeper into Asia

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... to increase their regional funds management capabilities. Macquarie Financial Group also signed a recent agreement with Indian financial services provider Religare Wealth Management Services to provide product development, management and distribution ...

Smart outsourcing or global offloading?

... price points have moved. There's no price differentiator anymore say, between India and getting the service locally because Indian companies have moved up the value chain." BT Financial Group's head of IT infrastructure Richard Boxall said that being ...

India-Australia wealth management forum set for take-off

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... mature financial services sector has a "once in an era" opportunity to cement its place as a major player in the developing Indian market, especially when you realise the country-to-country ties we have and how Australia's superannuation system is now ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
In a historic development, the Australian and Indian government have signed a joint feasibility study to explore the potential benefits of a free trade agreement between the two countries. Preliminary results from the study found India has the fourth ...