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Global navigator finds six more

The shift to regional investing is gathering pace with platform group Navigator adding three country funds supplemented with three global funds to its menus. The new country funds are Fidelity's Australian Equity, China and India funds, and the three ...

Macquarie launches global infrastructure fund

Macquarie Investment Management has launched an infrastructure fund set to invest in global infrastructure stocks, particularly in China and India where the economic boom will drive the demand for more highways, airports and larger utility providers. ...

Asset Super Board looks to Steer straight ahead

National director of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) Australia, Naomi Steer, has been appointed to the Board of Asset Super to take the place of former speaker of the NSW Upper House John Johnson. Steer's experience has mainly ...

AXA primed for strong growth

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2005
AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd expects to grow faster than its major financial services rivals in Australia for the foreseeable future. The life insurance and wealth management group surprised the market with a better than expected half-yearly net profit ...

Australia performs strongly in Asian market private equity investment

Australian companies garnered the largest share of private equity investments in the Asian Pacific (ex Japan) region during the first two quarters of the year according to the latest Thomson Financial private equity report. The total amount of private ...

Macquarie looks to India as it wraps up $15 billion

Macquarie Bank will enter the Indian market establishing a specialist funds management business as part of its overall presence in that market. Subject to full regulatory approval, the bank will establish a securities brokerage business in Mumbai with ...

First six months flat for Platinum

Platinum Captial has experienced a flat first half of the 2004/05 financial year with its international investments, despite strong performances by stock markets world wide across all industries, predominantly due to the short positions being held by ...

Economy withstands impact of tsunami

The devastating tsunami that struck South Asia just over a fortnight ago will have minimal economic impact on the region, according to AMP Capital Investors chief economist and head of investment strategy Dr Shane Oliver, as the cornerstone industries ...

Emerging countries fuel oil demand as world runs out of oil

HFA Asset Management chief investment strategist Jonathan Pain attributes the rise in oil prices to the increase in demand from growing nations including China and India and a serious inability for oil producing countries to sustain production. Mr Pain ...

Financial institutions go offshore to cut costs

Deloitte's second annual global financial services industry offshore survey predicts the top 100 global financial services institutions will shift approximately $210 billion of their cost base offshore resulting in average cost savings exceeding $700 ...