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Rwanda calls for $770m fund injection

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... home to over 10 million people who mostly engage in subsistence agriculture. The country's major export markets include China, Germany and the US.

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... community - read, more aid. Nothing really concrete results from this and so it was ignored, especially with big brother China wagging a no-no finger on its little bro's mischievous action. But what about the real threat? Yes, the thing that started ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... 98 103.7 A+ 17. United States 13,627 44 95 60.7 AAA 18. Australia 764 36 71 15.4 AAA 19. Japan 2,344 18 48 170.4 AA 20. China 375 0.28 9 15.7 A+ *External debt is based on 2008 figures except for the US and Norway (2007) These figures are dated and it ...

UniSuper hires former CFS chief as CIO

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... experiences in financial services. More recently, he has been working in Asia as head of global asset management for Ping An - China's second largest insurance firm. During his time at CFS, Pearce also played a significant role in industry policy development ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... with an MIS business. ITC generates revenues through a timber processing business that exports to New Zealand, Europe and China and, separately, a forestry division that has more than 175,000 hectares of diversified plantations. The firm's managed investment ...

New chapter for DST Global Solutions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... solutions, a service that the local arm haven't provided before. Fund managers and other wholesale investors with a presence in China will also benefit from the group's technology developments for the region. DST Global recently won a mandate from CLAMC ...

AIA public listing one step closer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... represents 20 million customers and 250,000 agents across branch offices, subsidiaries and affiliates in Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. AIG Life Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was over one and a half per cent higher at noon, led by a surge in the mining sector. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index was up 59.6 points, or by 1.6 per cent, at 3783, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 57.5 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The Australian share market was more than two and a half per cent lower at noon, with concerns about the stability of the US economy dragging the market down. At 1200 AEST, the S&P/ASX200 index slumped 110.4 points lower, or by 2.86 per cent, at 3745.7 ...

Pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... necessary. Economies are beginning to respond witnessed by signs of stabilisation in the rate of decline of many indicators. China, for one, has lately reported jumps in business investment and retail spending. Wall Street's three-day pause - unless ...