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Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... borrowing for investment in capital and labour...and boost spending. And the world is a better place. More than half a century later and Keyne's paradox remains that - a paradox. Black? White? While this paradox provides an interesting area for debate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... for Economic Development of Australia hosts the 2009 State of the Nation conference in Canberra. In company news, China Century Capital, Admiralty Resources NL, Q Ltd, and Stirling Resources Ltd hold general meetings. On Friday the Australian share market ...

US church pension ramps up Asia-Pac presence

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... Pantaloon's Horizon Realty Fund and SUN-Apollo India Real Estate Fund, according to the publication. The fund is nearly a century old, and targets an allocation of 10 per cent to private equity.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... Construction of homes and apartments in the US fell 12.8 per cent last month to the lowest pace on records going back a half-century, the Commerce Department said. Analysts had expected housing starts to rise. The report did contain some positive signs ...

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... access to funding will present the biggest challenge for the industry in the next 12 months. John Taylor, fund manager at Century Funds Management, stressed that this will be a huge hurdle, with fund managers currently undergoing refinancing will face ...

BNP increases stake in Indian mega broker

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... powerhouse economy from this crisis. "Beyond the crisis, [India] will establish itself as an economic giant of the 21st century and we are proud to be in a position to combine our name with Geojit, one of the most successful retail stock broking firms ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... reach 703 billion over the next five years. This, according to Citigroup, is the biggest peacetime deficit in more than a century and tallies to around 12.4 per cent of the UK's economic output. I guess Britons would not be calling the Chancellor 'darling' ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... drubbing after their beloved PM Gordon Brown's tit (no not the sexy one) -- a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President - got Barack's tat -- 25 DVDs of American movie classics - in exchange. Got problems with ...

ASFA's goals for 2009

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... the last five to ten years. "This is about our industry... the framework around retirement incomes going into the 21st century," she said. "We are having a roundtable this week, we have had member forums, and if you have any views on the framework about ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... far cry from when these shares were trading at 50 to 200 times PE multiples. "Google is like the TV network of the 21st century...as for eBay, a lot of people think of it as an auction site when it fact it has three business streams and is doing really ...