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AMP Capital Infra fund closed

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... projects. The portfolio is expected to consist of investments in the subordinated debt of 10 to 15 companies headquartered in OECD countries, in the essential services of water, gas, electricity, transport and hospitals, said AMP Capital.

Australian economy on target for growth: OECD

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... Development's economic forecast for May 2012 has confirmed that it expects the Australian economy to significantly outperform other OECD economies, this year and next. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) has forecasted ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... resilient domestic demand and strong growth in intra-region trade, according to Fidelity. Asian economies are less dependent on OECD countries than in the past, said David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. "Today, Asia contributes ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... the major banks earn about 2.4% per annum more than they pay retail depositors," said Bouris. YBR said that pre-GFC, the OECD found that about 70% of the money invested in super funds was being invested in domestic and global shares, taking a large hit ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... only the WB singing the gloom and doom tune at the time, every other international financial body - the ADB, the IMF, the OECD - were chiming in on the chorus. Back then I wrote in this space that, "It demonstrates how it's easy to get caught up in the ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... growth. Hello, Wayne Swan. Hope you're listening. Nevertheless these are already known knowns. Nothing new. Even the latest OECD predictions predict this when it upgraded its OECD growth estimates but warned that the eurozone would struggle to grow this ...

Cayman Islands hedge fund reforms on-track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... improving financial regulation in the country, while not driving away hedge fund operators. The reforms follow pressure from the OECD that the Cayman Islands clamp down on its hedge fund sector, with European governments arguing it promotes tax and compliance ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... economies. This was how the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank (WB) saw the economic landscape panning out in 2012 when they - one after the other - lowered their global ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) all said so late last year or early this year. And China? Yes, we know. And the world economy? Yes, check. And how do we know ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... to gain only less than half of that - 41.0%. What's happening to the equity market of the economy that is the envy of the OECD - the one that dodged the GFC bullet and one that's little affected by the European sovereign debt crisis? What? What? What? ...