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Praemium moves Smartfunds into UAE

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... Authority to offer three Smartfunds (growth, balanced and cautious) and two Smartfund 80% protected funds (growth and balanced) in UAE. Dubai stock exchange-listed Mashreq Bank will act as Praemium's local promoter for the funds. Mashreq Bank has ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... Corporation (CIC), which posted strong AUM growth, largely boosted by recent stronger-than-expected Chinese economic growth. UAE's Abu Dhabi Investment Authority placed third with US$828bn in assets. Kuwait Investment Authority (US$524bn), Hong Kong ...

Rubik signs with Pakistan bank

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... international presence in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, a wholesale banking unit in Bahrain and a representative office in the UAE. The bank services more than one million corporate, institutional, retail, small business, agricultural, Islamic and asset financing ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Canada, Egypt, India and Taiwan. Other growth areas for HSBC will be China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE and the United Kingdom. "The world is increasingly connected, with Asia expected to show high growth and become the centre of ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... (the heydays of the global economy). Sure, sure, weep...if you're a producer (or maybe not, in the case of Saudi Arabia, the UAE or Kuwait - they want it to kill off competitors), but consumers should rejoice and... there's more of 'em than suppliers. ...

Santa's bargains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2014
... Agency's (IEA) cut its global oil demand forecast for next year. There may be more pain in store if Suhail Al-Mazrouei's - the UAE's energy minister - statement that OPEC is "not going to change our minds because the prices went to $60 or to $40". Oh-em-gee! ...

Aussie bitcoin platform launches in UAE

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
... exchange online platform in the United Arab Emirates. The company claimed the new platform will allow ex-pats living in the UAE but sending money out of the country to save up to 7 or 8% in international transaction costs and currency exchange. Igot ...

Sovereign wealth funds climb to US$5.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... SWF capital flows. Norway's Government Pension Fund at US$737 billion was reported as the world's largest SWF followed by UAE Abu Dhabi's Investment Authority with US$627 billion, China's SAFE Investment Company with US$568 billion, Saudi Arabia's SAMA ...

It's still the hole, stups

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... tightening demand came news this morning that NSW premier Barry O'Farrell will lead trade missions to China, India and the UAE this year to drum up investor interest in NSW infrastructure projects. While semi-government bonds may form part of the package ...