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Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... the poor. Convenient 'eh? But beyond the political shrewdness of the darling Chancellor's budget is the fact that the country remains in deep contraction mode. The announcement alone risks killing off the green shoots that have slowly sprung over the ...

HSBC appoints Davis as Indian CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... announced "shortly" a statement from the firm said. Meanwhile in the sub-continent, current group general manager and country head of HSBC in India, Naina Lal Kidwai, was appointed chair of HSBC India. Davis has been HSBC Bank Australia chief executive ...

Fiji Reserve Bank imposes credit controls

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... Fiji were made in the best interest of the Fiji economy. "In times of extreme crisis it is not unusual for a developing country to do this kind of thing," said Hayward. As many as half of Fiji's 52,000 public service jobs are potentially at risk according ...

Aviva snaps up Russian pension

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... fund products in Russia as a result of the deal, with roughly a 10 per cent share of the assets under management in the country's corporate pensions market. "This acquisition will grow our market share of the Russian non-state pension fund business significantly ...

JV raises $1bn for Indian infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... Infrastructure Trust. Both entities invest in vanilla infrastructure assets that generate long-term identifiable cash flows. The country's growing infrastructure sector is catching the attention of other fund managers. John Pereira, India Equities Fund ...

Irish pensions suffer 25pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... to the latest Irish Association of Pension Funds' annual asset allocation survey, the assets of pension schemes in the country fell $38 billion to $126 billion - nearly a quarter's lost from its previous $163 billion in December 07. "The change is less ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... per cent over the week. This despite Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Alistair Darling admitting that his country's recession is "worse than we thought" and that he thinks the first quarter 2009 economy would "be bad, because if you look ...

Outsourcing the next boom market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... New Zealand (8 per cent). Australia also ranks highly in customer interaction activities, with 43 per cent ranking the country as the top destination for outsourcing. New Zealand is a distant second at 29 per cent, and India, Phillippines and Malaysia ...

Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... migrating towards that intrinsic opportunity," said Blackburn. The Invesco wholesale property securities fund's top three country exposures are the US (52 per cent), France (9.9 per cent) and Japan (9.7 per cent). But like many of its global listed property ...

Mexican super funds shut doors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... snubbing international investments this year as they invest all of their fund inflows into the local market to boost the country's economy. According to Asociacion Mexicana de Administradoras de Fondos, an organisation that represents all Mexican super ...