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Economic round up: weather winners and losers

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... Mother Nature has finally turned her charms on to rural exports with record rainfalls in the southeastern grain-producing regions. According to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) Australia's wheat production is expected ...

Investment treasure in emerging Europe: QWL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... chasing returns in emerging European countries by finding investment managers with the unique skills to operate in these regions. The multi-manager QWL New Europe Fund follows the QWLEuro Fund, which has been returning 26 per cent per annum, and the ...

UBS Australia imports global strength

... reasons, he said, include the fact that the US market is a deeper pool of absolute-return type strategies compared to other regions and that, on closer analysis, US company valuations have already priced in the likely weakness of the region's economy. ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... people," said David Quirk, director, client services Australia. "There's basically a matrix of nine risk profiles and regions, and you can use those to tailor a solution to the risk profile and the liking of the client." And because the underlying funds ...

Pengana to ride the UK REIT wave

... new business opportunities. We have identified core opportunities in the UK, North America and Western Europe, so these regions are of particular interest for us and require on-the-ground resources," said chief executive officer, Russel Pillemer. Pillemer ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... Aberdeen senior investment manager, global equities team, said that global benchmarks were inherently lopsided to certain regions and countries, like the US, and hence were a poor guide for diversifying equities investments. "We believe that if a portfolio ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... $560 million taking the total package to beyond $2 billion with the relief expected to continue until 2008. Farmers in 44 regions will be allowed to access the additional funds under the expanded assistance where total subsidies will be increased from ...

Citigroup taps into migrant banking needs

... countries that will benefit from the new service are Mexico, India, the Philippines and the South Asian and Latin American regions. Put simply, Citigroup will provide the website hosting, foreign exchange and funds transfer services to these countries ...

VIC and TAS region hungry for financial planners

... reported a staggering 80 per cent increase in financial planning job ads for the Melbourne, regional Victorian and Tasmanian regions in the last six months alone, twice the demand in Sydney and NSW. The data was released this week by the financial planning ...

AMP Cap Investors revs up global direct property

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... America. "Both our new partners have very successful track records in property investment management in their respective regions. Their local market expertise will prove invaluable to the success of the Global Direct Property Fund." Investments in direct ...