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Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... dropped to minus 46.9 in the period to May 8, the worst reading since March, from the prior week's minus 46.2. Across regions, sentiment suffered the most in the West, where fuel prices exceed the national average." Did you get that? Consumer sentiment ...

Future Fund dabbles in India

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... suggests an approximate 25% allocation to India." Chandra said the fund has the flexibility to invest across many sectors and regions of the world wherever they spot the most innovative companies. "Our fund will invest in technology, health care, infrastructure ...

He's just a man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
... disaster? Can it vanquish Qaddafi? Can it stop the protests in the Middle East and North Africa and bring peace in those regions? No, no, no and no. Have you now revised your spreadsheets and made major adjustments? Same way you did when Saddam Hussein ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble said net profit rose 11 per cent in its third quarter as sales increased in all its regions around the world. P&G shares rose 0.7 per cent to $64.50. The bond market firmed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... time, confirmed the economy was growing on a broad base around the country, though at an "only moderate" pace in many regions. The markets opened higher in the morning buoyed by JPMorgan's 67 per cent jump in earnings per share for the first quarter. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... credit rating on Thursday and warned it might do so again, as it raised the alarm over Spanish banking woes and spendthrift regions. New York-based Moody's cut the long-term debt rating by a notch to "Aa2" with a negative outlook, a serious setback to ...

More to emerging markets than Asia

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... director, US and emerging market equities product management, Fidelity International believes that the EMEA and Latin America regions present some of the best investment opportunities. Fidelity has a US$1.6bn EMEA fund, 45 per cent of which is allocated ...

Riots turn fund managers to risk review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Emerging markets are now a portfolio staple but riots in North Africa and other high-risk regions have forced fund managers to reassess their portfolios in the region, particularly their investments in mining stocks. Department of Foreign Affairs and ...

Zurich poaches IUS Life team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... in size over the past three years. This year, Morgan said they expect to write over a billion dollars across the four regions they operate in: Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia and Middle East (including Australia).

ARIA boosts property sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... an increasingly fragmented policy response is likely to alter prospective returns-for-risk across assets, industries, regions and corporations," according to a fund statement. "The impact on volatility will be critical because policy responses to climate ...