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Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... make most of their profits from the surge in tourists from emerging markets, rather than the US and Japanese visitors the country traditionally relied on. "We believe this is a favourable time to invest in the Australasian hotel sector," said Abacus ...

Bravura becomes a prime buy target

... and Mercer Human Resource Capital as clients. It also provides the superannuation administration software to four of the country's top five third-party superannuation administrators. Lift's troubles has certainly spoiled Bravura's performance record ...

Instos to spend big in India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... president and fund manager Aashish Wakanker, said the bank was allocating towards engineering and capital goods because of the country's infrastructure shortfall. "This expected growth in infrastructure is not for tomorrow's demand but for yesterday's ...

AMP Capital Core Infrastructure hits $100m

... example, the group recently bought into Principal Aged Care, one of the largest for-profit aged care operators in the country. "The fund's flagship direct assets include Melbourne Airport and Principal Aged Care. It is not often retail investors get ...

Intel eyes China tech

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... investment arm of computing giant Intel has doubled the size of its newest China technology fund in a bid to cash in on the country's booming IT sector. Intel Capital said the new $535.7 million China technology fund will be invested in wireless broadband ...

Aus planners lead the world in business practice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... practices and nine per cent US practices attained the same rating. "Generally speaking when we looked at data sets by country, more Australian practices had documented business plans, more of them had started to address succession issues," said Rod Bertino ...

Singapore property a winner

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... LaSalle Investment has singled out Singapore as a key investment channel in the Asia-Pacific region and noted that the country's high grade commercial and retail properties will still enjoy solid growth despite the general market downturn. LaSalle Investment ...

Credit Suisse buys AXE stake

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... AXE ECN. Collectively the firms account for more than 40 per cent of ASX trades. According to David Trude, Credit Suisse country manager, the firm's investors would ultimately benefit from the purchase. Greg Yanco, AXE chief executive, said Credit Suisse' ...

JPMorgan buys $342.5 bn Nordic custody service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... services such as Nordea Funds and Nordea Life & Pensions. In addition, JPMorgan will provide depository services to in-country mutual funds via Nordea's branches in Denmark, Finland and Norway. As a result of the deal, Nordea's marketing relationship ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... Trust president Dr Zeny Edwards being reported in News Limited media saying "Our sky is the only vista common to the whole country... We hope the listing of the sky will be a unifying symbol to help focus awareness on the need to protect our environment ...