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Henderson acquires 33% stake in 90 West AM

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... global appeal," Henderson Australia executive chairman Rob Adams said. "Investing in global natural resources and agriculture equities is our passion," 90 West founder Clive Landale said. 90 West AM was founded in 2008 by Landale, and previous head of ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... plans approved unless they provide water reports. Australia's higher demand for water comes from the urban population, agriculture land and the industry. However, the demand in the mining sector is growing, according to Lourey. Moody's report states ...

Super fund awards natural resources mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Asset Management. Population growth, urbanisation and increasing prosperity are themes that will drive valuation in agriculture, mining and resources, and long-term investors want to tap into these fundamentals with specialist managers, he said. Yesterday ...

Wealth gap narrows in China

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... between rural and urban areas. It was the third year in a row that the gap has narrowed, according to a Ministry of Agriculture report cited by the state owned Xinhua news agency on Thursday. Rural residents' per capita cash income was 6778 yuan ($A1041) ...

Renewed appetite for Aussie stocks

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... market cap is starting to test the Australian industry high of $5.45 billion - with the best performing funds being agriculture and food based products, up between 11% and 25% in July. As experienced in June, the bulk of new inflows in July went into ...

Super funds cautioned on climate risk

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... 'climate sensitive assets' as largely lying in the alternatives space with infrastructure, property, private equity, agriculture, timberland and themed strategies the most likely places for the risk to seep into a portfolio. Birgden said that while these ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... goes hiring, and reduce consumers' disposable income and spending on "others". While the month old price spike in agriculture in only a month old - rising prices could cure rising prices - and speculators are certainly benefitting, the world does not ...

Digging dirt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... midst of a downturn in residential, commercial and public sector infrastructure activity." Sowee but there's one more. Agriculture prices are soaring. Food crisis! Reduced disposable income! Rising inflation! Less scope for monetary policy accommodation! ...

Ten new ETPs get ASX listing

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... ETF Securities said four ETCs aim to replicate the performance of commodity baskets, in sectors such as energy and agriculture. The ETFS All Commodities (CSP) provides exposure to 20 different commodities across a range of sectors, which ETF Securities ...

Australia lags on commodities investments

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... good way to obtain a commodities exposure, given a low correlation, below 1% in most cases. "The correlation between agriculture performance and the underlying companies is around 0.4%, for oil and gas, it's about 0.65%," Gunzberg said. "The reason for ...