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India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... problem in India and leading to massive wealth dispersions between modern and traditional India, the Ministry of Finance said rural production was up only 2.6 per cent. Highlighting the concerns, Indian wheat production has fallen one-third since 2006. ...

FinLit goes global

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... who is chair of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, and Fazle Abed who is executive director of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee. The objective of this latest financial literacy foundation is to help children grow up with enough knowledge ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... 20 per cent annum just adds to the pressure. As China's demands for energy to fuel is expanding industry and urbanise its rural poor develops, this demand for Australian resources is only going to become more important as well, which in-turn is why so ...

The looming inflationary upswing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... in new water sources for urban Australia," Ross Young executive officer of the Water Services Association Australia told Rural Press reporters in Canberra this week. Meanwhile Arab Business News has reported that Matthew Simmons, chairman and founder ...

Harvesting performance from agribusiness

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... compared to the broader market seems to be increasing over time." The Commonwealth Bank Agribusiness sector comprises 15 listed rural-dependent companies who stock prices are compiled into a non-float adjusted, market-cap weighted index similarly to ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... total water consumed in Australia in 2004-05, compared with agriculture which accounted for 65 per cent, highlighting that rural water management is the main game for water conservation rather retired pensioners lugging buckets of water around their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open higher following a strong lead from Wall Street. In London, base metal prices were mostly weaker. At 0717 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was up 202 points ...

Great Southern branches outside agribusiness

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... Southern Funds Management and distributed to its advisers through its sales team. Last month, Great Southern launched a Rural Opportunities Fund, which provides investors with exposure to rural centric property and infrastructure holdings.

AustSafe launches new pension products

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... the fund has been able to reduce the fees paid by pension members," he said. AustSafe Super is the industry super fund for rural and regional Australia. It currently has $900 million in funds under management.

FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... Sunraysia. The FPA approached the minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, Peter McGauran, in July and together with the Rural Financial Counselling Service Program created a taskforce to develop procedures and guidelines for the trial program. ...