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Fiducian launches India fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... fund's investments are weighted towards infrastructure, power and banking with 13 per cent invested in metals and basic engineering, 12 per cent in construction and 11 per cent in technology. The mid cap stock bias of the fund is designed to capture ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... Petroleum rose three cents to $45.33, Santos three cents to $13.28, and Oil Search two cents to $3.70. In market news, engineering and construction firm, Leighton Holdings Ltd, will merge its Gulf region division with United Arab Emirates company, Al ...

Stop chasing artificial yields: PIR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... yields over the past five years have prompted some fund managers to artificially inflate their returns using financial engineering and other innovations. But that strategy won't stack up in a bear market and gives investors a false picture of the property ...

CommBank stays with EDS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... got to be implemented." In response the bank took some of the IT development for its $1.5 billion Which New Bank re-engineering program back in-house, most notably the branch customer management system CommSee. There was some speculation that the bank ...

Fed Banks upgrade to next gen payment systems

... Platform, which is based on a service oriented architecture (SOA) approach and adopts industry standards Business Process Engineering Language (BPEL) and Linux. "We are committed to building a payment processing solution that effectively addresses the ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... issues for vulnerable areas such as agriculture infrastructure and coastal communities. The Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and innovation Council (PMSEIC) warns of the economic impact of extreme climatic conditions, and as the climate changes ...

Symantec appoints co-heads to fin services team

... Yu was at IT Channel Asia, Hong Kong-based investment bank CLSA and was vice president and manager of regional UNIX engineering and operation group at Morgan Stanley. Michelle Baltazar

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
... recruits. For resources sector dependent businesses the situation can be dire, as exemplified by one Bunbury based engineering firm that had to close because they couldn't compete with mining companies' wages for mechanics. According to Access Economics ...

IFM bolsters infrastructure team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... His work at BHP Billiton involved industrial research and development, oil and gas exploration, field development engineering and planning, and strategy development and execution.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... respondents saying that they intend to increase permanent employment in the coming quarter while the Construction/Property/Engineering sector recorded a net effect of 49 per cent. WA has the highest level of employer sentiment nationally with a net score ...