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Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... Institute today launched global research into carbon pricing in the electricity sector of six key economies - Australia, China, USA, UK, Japan, South Korea. According to the research, Australia is well behind its competitors in the UK, China and the ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... analysis," said Briana Lam, senior investment analyst at van Eyk. "In addition, transparency of corporate management in China is much lower than in the developed world. Indeed, it is a Chinese equities fund manager's major concern. The country is at ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... of the European Central Bank, told an interview that the bank would continue bond purchases "as long as necessary". And China? Neither hail, nor storm, nor floods, nor the US Treasury's threats could force it to revalue its currency. China's commerce ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... accusations of plagiarism - but the message is one. It is the weak weekly jobless claims. It is America's trade deficit with China. It is the investigation into "alleged" illegal US property foreclosures. I'll spare you the stats this time for there ...

No housing bubble: Fidelity

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... house prices to fall of a cliff we need to see a pick up in unemployment and I don't think that is likely, unless of course China rolls (over)," she said. Fidelity's head of Australian equities Paul Taylor reaffirmed his belief that a double dip recession ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... need to print more US dollars. This is not hard to imagine, especially given last night's reports on company profits and China. According to Bloomberg, "Going into this earnings season, more than 70 percent of S&P 500 companies have topped the average ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... 'rising' middle class accounts for US$32 trillion of global wealth, and around 60 per cent of them live in Asia. For example, China's wealth is 35 per cent greater than that of France (US$12.1 trillion), the wealthiest country in Europe. Meanwhile, Indonesia's ...

Planner associations at different stages globally

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... members of the global body called Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB), which includes Australia, Brazil, Taiwan, India, China and France among others. The FPSB sets standards at an international basis particularly as it relates to CFP designation. ...

Good vintage yields strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... meeting. It was supposed to be a very important meeting where the money chiefs of the biggest seven economies in the world plus China, India, Brazil and a handful of others talked about a very important agenda - currency wars. Oh yes, they talked... ...