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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... per cent in private business investment and 0.2 per cent in dwellings. Negative contribution to growth came from the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector, as well as the mining and manufacturing sectors. The year on year growth of 1.9 per cent means ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
... half of this worth was in gold for India's jewellery market. The industries of energy, information technology and agriculture are likely to be future winners in the relationship following the March trade and economic framework agreement signed between ...

MISs distort agribusiness sector: McGauran

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
Federal Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran has joined calls from some in the agriculture industry to curb the involvement of managed investment schemes chasing a tax break through the sector. Speaking to ABC's NewsRadio yesterday afternoon, McGauran ...

MacBank launches commodities only fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... will be actively managed, low cost and will give liquid exposure to energy markets, industrial and precious metals, agriculture and livestock markets. "Super funds and asset consultants have been looking closely at the benefits of including commodities ...

Australian financial services globally competitive: Axiss

... Australian wealth generators, creating 8.5 per cent of Australia's GDP in 2004, which is more than the combined value of agriculture, mining, forestry and fishing. In teasing overseas institutions to consider basing operations in Australia, the Axiss ...

InvestorWeb expands its alternative investments team

... encompasses a broad range of investment options such as hedge funds, structured products, some listed entities, warrants, agriculture and other exotics. Murray has over 15 years experience in the derivatives and alternative investment markets. He was ...

Macquarie makes it easy to invest in agriculture

Macquarie will streamline the investment process in agricultural projects through its new Agri-Investment facility. Macquarie division director Craig Swanger says the facility was developed in response to adviser demand for a more efficient approach ...

Aurora teams up with agricultural manager Environinvest

Aurora funds manage has entered into a distribution mandate with Melbourne based agriculture manager Environinvest to market and distribute three agricultural managed investment schemes. The deal will give investors access to the primary industry and ...

Rentenbank prices $150 mln increase to June 2011 issue

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Germany's agency for agriculture, has today priced a $A150 million increase to its existing June 2011 Kangaroo bond issue. The increase was priced at a re-offer spread of 41 basis points over the June 2011 Australian ...

WTO warns time running out

... the end of July. It was imperative that governments kept focused and overcome thorny problems such as subsidies on agriculture by rich countries and the high tariffs on farm imports from developing nations - issues that divided WTO member states and ...