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Global instos flock to Asian infrastructure

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Asian Infrastructure & Related Resources Opportunity fund, one of the largest dedicated Asian infrastructure funds in the world, has closed with over $900 million from institutional investors including Australia. The fund ...

Trader's market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
What's the trouble with Wall Street? It can't seem to make its mind these past three days - down, up, down. US equity indices closed lower last night after rising the day before and falling before the day before. Just writing that sentence has gotten ...

Australian Ethical taps global smart energy

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... Equities Trust to focus on global smart energy. The trust has always invested in renewable energy, recycling, efficient transport and other smart energy companies in previous years but following further industry studies, it will now focus solely on the ...

Positive contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... manufacturing has improved. The AIG/PwC performance of manufacturing index rose to 51 in January on higher demand for coal, transport equipment and construction materials for housing. There now seems to be a positive contagion on the way. Now for the ...

Macquarie wins mandate from Mexico

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2010
Macquarie Group is eyeing Mexican infrastructure this new year, following the launch of a new infrastructure fund and winning $294 million in mandates from seven Mexican pension funds. In a press statement released late last week, Macquarie announced ...

Zurich to roll out climate change training

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Past all the green rhetoric, one insurer is spending money to give insurance brokers proper training on climate change and how it could affect their clients' business. Insurance and investments group Zurich doesn't just walk the walk on climate change ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Talk of the town. That's the RBA of course. At a time when other G-20 nations continue to debate the growth alphabet of their own recovery, Australia's central bank declared, 'no mas!' 'No mas' need for keeping interest rates at the emergency level ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
... 4.64 per cent, to $1.58 on news that it's appointing a new chairman as one of three new non-executive directors on teh transport infrastructure group's board. In New York overnight, natural gas prices tumbled, hitting a new seven-year low as the US pares ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... night, and it was good. For the light said to it, the US economy is improving at the margin. US durable goods orders ex-transport - a leading indicator of industrial production -- rose by 3.9 per cent in February after four straight months of decline ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2009
... cent lower at noon ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate decision, after diversified financials and transport stocks helped the market claw back some lost ground. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 49.4 points, or ...