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ABN AMRO launches Altera

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... infrastructure and commodities with the security of a 100 per cent capital guarantee. The fund will provide exposure to Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) markets, and will be open to Australian retail investors. Paul Cordeiro, Head of Retail Structured ...

Norway revises pension investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... markets will be broadened to include "second tier" emerging countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, India, Morocco, Russia and Mexico. The portfolio's allocation to emerging markets will be boosted to 10 per cent, a five per cent increase in the ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... liquidity." Davey continued, "But what you see is that as you go through the period 2001 to 2003, you have currencies such as Russia, Turkey and others that suddenly became free floating and their liquidity increases. The interesting thing for us is ...

Baring Asia pumps $95m in green fuel

... Institute found that the region boasts 37 trillion cubic-meter reserves of coalbed methane, ranking third is size after Russia and Canada. "Currently, China's huge CBM reserves remain largely underdeveloped mainly due to a lack of technology and inadequate ...

CAAM dons emerging markets cap

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
From Russia to Brazil, Africa to India, emerging markets are outpacing their developed counterparts left, right and centre, and Credit Agricole Asset Management's (CAAM) Australian arm is the latest firm to capitalise on this sector's growth. Launched ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... the growth potential of two underlying baskets of indices. The BRIC II fund gives investors access to the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China - markets through the S&P BRIC 40 index. The Food, Feed, Fuel fund provides exposure to agricultural commodities ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... and socially responsible investments (SRI) fund managers have conflicting policies on how they invest in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets, leading to inconsistent returns for SRI investors. According to Mercer research, emerging markets ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... expansion, moderate expansion for India, moderate recovery for Canada, possible downturn for the UK, moderate slowdown for Russia, France and the US, a downturn for Germany, continued slowdown for Italy and strong slowdown for Japan. Australia is expected ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. "Muslim investors around the world have growing appetite for investable ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... research showed a relatively low level of Chinese urbanisation and population growth in emerging economies like India, Russia and the Middle East would result in a sustained Australian resources boom. The comments come only two weeks after Schroder's ...