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Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... 10.93 per cent, at $10.59 after the insurer flagged a slide in its first-half profit linked to problems with its Latin American operations. Among the major banks, the Commonwealth Bank was up 34 cents at $82.34, ANZ had found four cents at $33.56, and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... while the RBA's assistant governor (financial markets), Guy Debelle, is slated to be a panel participant at the 2nd Latin American Australia Investors Forum, also in Sydney. In equities news, the chief executives of BHP Billiton, Telstra, ANZ and GE ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... emerging markets of the future. These include predominantly African and Middle Eastern economies but also some Latin American, Eastern European and South Asian economies. "The pace at which frontier markets are converging with the rest of the world is ...

New index offers chance to invest like a billionaire

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... by serial entrepreneurs Raul Moreno, who co-founded Kinetik, and Alejandro Estrada, co-founder of Dineromail, a Latin American version of PayPal.

Venezuelan market rally under question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... helping his impoverished political base". And why not? The Venezuelan economy has grown faster than its bigger Latin American neighbours, Brazil and Mexico. Latest available figures show Venezuela's GDP expanded by 5.2% in the year to the third quarter ...

Latin American pension funds eye PE

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... banks from making speculative investments that don't benefit their costumers. In its research, Preqin tracked 80 Latin American limited partners, 64 of which were based in South America and 16 in Central America. The research institution found that 64 ...

Fixville here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011
... head to fixville, but it'll get there... eventually. Look back to, say, the Great Depression of the 1930s, or the Latin American crisis of the early 1980s, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, or even the recent GFC (although some say this has ...

Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
A misunderstanding of Latin American financial markets and smart positioning in the face of US and European debt crisis sees Latin America shape up to an attractive investment outlook. Generally regarded for its dependency on exports, Brazil in particular ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... real solution. I thought of suggesting doing what former US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady did to solve the Latin American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the only one thinking about this. The Wall Street Journal named ...

Fixed interest ETFs to fill "massive hole"

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... also rising in prominence and earlier this month Van Eck launched the first exchange-traded fund that holds only Latin American bonds. The Australian ETF market is now worth more than $5 billion.