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Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... major geopolitical event for the oil market". The extrapolation being trouble in Iraq could spread to the other Middle Eastern countries, extrapolated to disruption in oil production and then to higher prices and then to higher oil import prices (by ...

Sovereign Wealth Funds surge to $5 trillion

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... growth in assets under management, growing by an average of 19% since 2012. This is in comparison to 6% growth in Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds. Asia-based sovereign wealth funds account for 47% of global aggregate sovereign wealth fund assets ...

AustSuper backs away from SYD takeover

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... Melbourne Airport. These laws may explain why AustralianSuper, which is an investor through IFM, has teamed up with Middle Eastern and Canadian pension funds. Macquarie currently has the largest stake in Sydney Airport at 16.8%. For the past two years ...

BNP Paribas MD departs, successor announced

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... recently at State Street. This includes extensive international experience, including in European, Asian, African and Middle Eastern contexts. "Our investment over the last four years has delivered a matured business model, and coupled with our status ...

Service consumption bucks downward trend in EM equities

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... $100. Private health is therefore an attractive investment in emerging markets, an example being London-listed Middle Eastern hospital group NMC Health. There are also significant opportunities in education. Brazilian company Kroton, the world's largest ...

Australian Islamic finance presents opportunities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... interested in all Australian mums and dads". MCCA is also reported to be in advanced discussions with an unnamed Middle Eastern company with a view to setting up a $180 million mortgage fund, a $150 million property fund, a $180 million Sukuk fund and ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... increased appetite for Sukuk that extends to fund managers and high net worth individuals. "Major South East Asian and Middle Eastern companies are tapping into the international Sukuk market to raise Shari'a compliant funds. Global financial firms are ...

'Brownfield' infra better suited to pension funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... Europe," Crosbie said. "Canadian investors have been making acquisitions in different parts of Europe and we're seeing Middle Eastern investors do the same, so I think a lot of investors are seeing the current eurozone challenges as an opportunity to ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... managers indices have picked up towards the close of 2010." Here, I was correct until... the Jasmine Revolution sent Middle Eastern and African dictators quivering and oil prices soaring. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... 2010, bullish arguments were largely focused on a "good enough" United States and an emerging market boom. With Middle Eastern sociopolitical turmoil taking center stage in that region, Japan in shambles, Europe using Scotch tape to fix budgets, and ...