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Hindsight strategy a winner: GSJBW

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... same strategy, the Commodity Hindsight Fund exposes investors to global commodity sectors across metals, energy and agriculture. In January, GSJBW launched the Keystone Funds - Series II, which included two funds: BRIC II and the Food, Feed, Fuel fund. ...

Agriculture drives biofuel investing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
As agriculture continues to outperform, the push for sustainable biofuels will only increase investor appetite for investment opportunities in the sector. According to the Commonwealth Bank, "Australia's listed agribusiness sector has significantly ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... accepted risk bracket," reported the Junee Southern Cross from the NSW Riverina district. "The outlook for broadacre agriculture is very positive. Recent rainfall has boosted expectations of an expanded winter cropping program in 2008-09, and with grain ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... moving water between those two places or points in time." Henry said drought wouldn't offer price protections to the agriculture industry either as they would have to pay the market price. "In a well functioning water market, drought-induced increases ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... highly rated commodity offering is ideal in the current market conditions given the supply and demand dynamics in agriculture, oil and precious metals and as a hedging strategy against inflation," noted Nick Basile, Ascalon chief executive and non-executive ...

Garnaut Review heralds an economic revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... developed countries. First, our climate is already hot, dry and variable. Second, the sensitivity of our temperate agriculture assumes special importance because of the large role that agriculture plays in the Australian relative to other developed economies. ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... conservation efforts, they accounted for only 11 per cent of the total water consumed in Australia in 2004-05, compared with agriculture which accounted for 65 per cent, highlighting that rural water management is the main game for water conservation ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... University. "As our first chief economist from a developing country, and an expert on economic development and particularly agriculture, Justin Lin brings a unique set of skills and experience to the World Bank Group," Robert Zoellick, president of the ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... should rally in the second part of the year and may approach new highs. But a sector to watch is businesses related to agriculture, particular as food prices increases are now a big inflation driver, he said. "The agriculture index jumped 60 per cent ...

Fidelity turns on hazard lights for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... pick them to grow earnings and provide positive returns even if world markets slow," Feldman said. "We're looking at agriculture, food, fertilizer, energy all of which are expected to grow regardless of economic conditions."