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Space-Time Research attracts VCs

... Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and Centrelink. Offshore clients include Statistics South Africa, Statistics Poland, Swiss Federal Statistics Office and the NZ Ministry of Education. STR is a rarity in the IT sector because ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
Australian Bureau of Statistics data released yesterday revealed a 0.6 per cent increase in the seasonally adjusted value of retail sales in July to $18.1 billion, largely as a result of a 7 per cent increase in department store sales which accounted ...

Emerging markets exodus continues

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
... and Russia were particularly attractive to funds, going overweight by 94 and 73 basis points respectively. However, South Africa has struggled to find an investment catalyst as its average allocation slid by another 73 basis points. Average weightings ...

Bravura begins UK growth push

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2006
Bravura Solutions is progressing with its UK expansion plans, announcing it has been selected by UK based Nucleus Financial Group as a technology provider for a new wrap platform. Nucleus is a financial services partnership between seven UK Independent ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2006
... effect. Both rates were last raised in January by a quarter percentage point. The central banks of South Korea and South Africa also lifted interest rates to 4.25 per cent and 7.5 per cent yesterday. More important, he European Central Bank raised its ...

Bravura set to fire with ASX listing

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
... markets. The group provides software solutions to major financial institutions in the UK, New Zealand, Thailand, South Africa and Scandinavia and late last year announced it had expanded its Asian operations with new offices in Hong Kong and Bangalore ...

Investec Australia buys NM Rothschild

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2006
... heads of agreement to acquire NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia). A statement issued by Investec group head office in South Africa said the transaction represents a value of "less than 5 per cent of the Investec group's combined market capitalization" ...

TOWER to tower after PrefSure merger

Insurance giant TOWER Australia kicks off its merger with PrefSure by re-jigging management, releasing a new product range and, in an ambitious move, rolling out more than 30 changes to its combined insurance suite. TOWER bought PrefSure Holdings early ...

PrefSure deal sees Tower focus on master trusts

TOWER have bought out PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited (PrefSure) from South African group, Liberty, for $145 million as they push their strategic growth towards life insurance for master trusts. TOWER managing director, Jim Minto, said that the key ...

Funds leave the US, bound for Japan

Investors have shunned US equity funds, channeling funds into Japanese equity funds instead. One of the more pronounced trends of 2005 continued in the first quarter of calendar year 2006, with investors pulling money out of US equity funds and pouring ...