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QIC eyes Asian mandates through new ambassador

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... Geoff Raby, to help win more mandates from Asian institutional investors. Raby retired from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade earlier this month after five years as Ambassador to China, during which time he had helped QIC gain access to high ...

Riots turn fund managers to risk review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... managers to reassess their portfolios in the region, particularly their investments in mining stocks. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade secretary Dennis Richardson told the Paydirt Africa Down Under mining conference last year that over 170 Australian ...

Speaker chaos could derail super reforms

... numbers currently 76 to 74, if a Labor member is made speaker and say a division (vote) were called while Kevin Rudd foreign affairs minister was out of the country at the same time as say the Treasurer was away at a G20 meeting or the defence minister ...

Kill chicken, scare monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Minister Stephen Smith could say in response to the verdict was that it seemed "very harsh". And even Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop managed only a little stronger, "This would be an issue of great concern to many companies from ...

Eslake joins Wingate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... advisory panels including the World Trade Organisation Advisory Group, the Trade Policy Advisory Council and the Foreign Affairs Council. The investment advisory committee also includes Chad Padowitz, chief investment officer at Wingate Asset Management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... detained in China on suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets faces the possibility of being charged, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith says.

China acts on climate change

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... more than A$3.3 billion of which will be injected into the new CDM fund," Xie said. Zhang Yesui, vice minister of foreign affairs for the Chinese Government, said the CDM fund would be a win-win situation as China would meet its emission targets and ...

MTAA Super appoints new chairman

... Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics Advisory Board, Canberra Raiders Rugby League club Board of Directors, the Foreign Affairs Council of Australia, the Defence and National Security Advisory Council, and the ACT Advisory Council of AIM. He has also ...

Financial services exports trailing economy

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and International Security Kevin Rudd has unveiled a plan to promote Australia as an Asia hub and boost financial services exports, saying we are missing a potential growth opportunity. Speaking to the Investment ...

Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
Kevin Rudd, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and International Security, won a lot of votes from a hardened crowd at yesterday's annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) conference by unveiling a plan to rebuild Australia's ...