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Australia better than triple A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... (a,-208bil) of GDP and Spain at 91 per cent (a,-950bil). That's just the PIGS. Add Italy at 23 per cent (a,-347bn) and Eastern Europe's and the total could easily top a,-2 trillion. And in case you missed it, that's in euros -- which translates to approximately ...

AXA pushes into Romanian life market

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... Union since January 2007. This deal is inline with AXA's strategy to accelerate its development in Central and Eastern Europe. The firm already has a presence in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. The firm has already generated $730 million ...

HSBC unveils EM equity fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... Australia. The fund gives local investors exposure to some of the world's fastest growing economies in Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa and Latin America. Managed by HSBC Global Asset Management's active management specialist, Halbis Capital ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... G-8 summit has been expanded to permanently include 12 other representations (Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa) to become the G-20. Finally, the new world economic order will not be shaped solely by a handful of rich industrial ...

Firm hails the next emerging market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
Looking for the next investment trend? Eastern Europe could be the answer, with one asset manager's flagship fund returning more than 20 per cent annualised since inception. Michael Hanson-Lawson, chief executive at East Capital Asia, said while a long-term ...

ING IM backs Asian bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... relation to risk is markedly lower at the moment than that of the bonds of countries in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe," the report said. "Emerging countries used to be included in an equity or bond portfolio only at times of economic boom ...

BRIC to BIC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... declined markedly." Roex said the majority of PE funds believe the risks of investing into Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Africa, have increased significantly in the past year. Sarah Alexander, EMPA president, said, "Investors recognize that ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... little birdy told it that the US central bank will be doling out greenbacks - enough to buy several countries in Eastern Europe, Latin America or Asia or two Australias. Or if you want to spread your risk and diversify, a combination of countries in ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Bank (ECB) for further monetary policy aid. The meeting became particularly crucial after Moody's reported that eastern Europe have succumb to the contagion and a recession there would be more severe than those in the west of the Continent, putting at ...

Deutsche extends MENA services

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... Hayes, MENA head of equity sales trading and Christopher Laing, co head of equity capital markets for central and eastern Europe and MENA. Salman Al Khalifa, Deutsche Bank head of global markets sales for MENA, said the bank has managed to build a fully ...