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FinLit goes global

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... included in schools. Meanwhile it's an issue just as big in the developed West as April is Financial Literacy Month. New York city even has an Office for Financial Empowerment. In Australia, the Financial Literacy Foundation has just announced that the ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... believes may be one of the drivers behind the rent increases - lifestyle factors of younger people wanting upmarket inner-city accommodation rather than actually wanting to own homes. "Generation-Y are leaving home much later than they used to - at an ...

City Pac dumps MFS deal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
City Pacific has announced that it is pulling the breaks on its offer to buy MFS Limited. According to a statement released on the ASX yesterday, City Pacific chief executive Phil Sullivan said that the Board of City Pacific has resolved that "it will ...

Vietnamese fund draws global attention

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... Vietnamese investment fund draws international support following the launch of its equity portfolio holdings on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange. Viet Han Corporation (VHC), one of Vietnam's most prominent players in the telecommunications cable manufacturing ...

Oil rich city pours $17.1b in SRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... continues." During the World Future Energy Summit, Masdar presented President George Bush with its six-pronged plan to build Masdar City, the world's first zero carbon, zero waste city. The Masdar Initiative is an Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company program ...

City Pacific withdraws MFS offer

Diversified financial services group City Pacific has backed out of a proposed merger with MFS shortly after MFS announced the demerger of its two businesses. City Pacific said in ASX statement this morning that the group informed MFS chief Michael ...

MFS to split investment and leisure arms

... include a fully underwritten $550 million renounceable entitlement offer of shares in the leisure business. Earlier this week, City Pacific Limited announced a conditional proposal to acquire the whole of MFS' business excluding the Stella Group and ...

Investors look east, Australia falls behind

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... capitalise on a free economy, suggests an annual report by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal. The port city, which benefits from zero trade barriers and 17.5 per cent tax for both foreign and local investments, was rated the freest ...

MFS director waves goodbye

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
Investors of property and tourism investment company MFS may be nervously waiting the decision on City Pacific's $830 million offer for the firm's funds management business, but one of the firm's non-executive director, Michael Hiscock, won't be staying ...

City Pacific to buy MFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Financial services provider, City Pacific has placed a $1.33 billion offer for funds management and advisory provider, MFS Limited. The offer includes the issue of 225 million new shares to MFS shareholders, assuming each share City Pacific receives ...