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To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... Already, Greece, Spain and Portugal - among others - have embarked on deep fiscal austerity measures. China, Japan and Canada are also in this camp. And just last night, the United Kingdom upped the tempo. Swept into power by its pledge of fiscal austerity ...

Going nowhere fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2010
... voila! We have confusion. Try reconciling these for instance: Japan revving up its quantitative easing versus the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's interest rate hikes; speculation of a slowdown in China and the Chinese property market ...

RARE Infra wins $1.4bn in mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... Fund. The global listed infrastructure fund manager has gained a number of institutional clients from Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, US and UK including several new clients in the past nine months. Colonial First State awarded RARE a $200 million global ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... construction spending increased by 2.7 per cent - more than forecasts for a flat reading. And did you read about the Bank of Canada doubling its interest rate from 0.25 per cent to 0.5 per cent yesterday? Can't find fault with that. Not with reports ...

China SWF signs resources JV in Canada

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2010
... (SWF) is investing more than $800 million as part of a joint venture to assist in the production of resource assets in Canada. The China Investment Corporation (CIC) formed a joint venture with Penn West Energy Trust to develop the company's bitumen ...

Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... of Japan, will allow them to provide the "full allotment" of US dollars as needed. A separate swap line with the Bank of Canada will support as much as $30 billion, the Fed said. The swaps were authorised through January 2011." With all guns blazing ...

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... According to the Commonwealth Treasury, 11 countries have resource royalty regimes but five - Norway, Denmark, the US, Canada and South Africa - have super profit components albeit defined differently with varying threshold and taxation rates. The broader ...

Trades jump for Liquidnet in Asia Pac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... Liquidnet's track record in other markets. In Europe, year-on-year growth for Q1 was 34 per cent (in US$ terms) and in Canada, trading for the first quarter of this year increased by 61 per cent (in volume of shares traded) from the previous quarter. ...

NabInvest buys Canadian property boutique

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... Australia Bank's direct asset management business, nabInvest, has bought Presima, a global REIT boutique fund manager based in Canada. The acquisition is nabInvest's seventh deal since the business was established in October 2007 and its second purchase ...

Transurban deal off Future Fund table

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
... Transurban. The Future Fund Board of Guardians released a statement yesterday, stating it has "terminated discussions with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario teachers' pension plan regarding their proposal to acquire Transurban Group". ...