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Australia's reversing fertility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... world growth but behind India's 1.6 per cent. It however exceeds Indonesia's 1.2 per cent, New Zealand's 1.0 per cent, Canada and the US's 0.9 per cent, China's 0.6 per cent and the UK's 0.3 per cent. Australia's growing population is also expected to ...

Instinet launches Chi-X Australia

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
... securities firm Instinet has launched Chi-X Global Inc - a holding company for the operations of Chi-X platforms in Europe, Canada and the Asia Pacific region - and is to release the Australian version. Led by chief executive Tony Mackay, Instinet is ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... another master plan to fix the sub-prime fiasco, a quiet revolution is happening inside Australia's Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National Bank have just announced ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... growth pecking order is Brazil and China set for strong expansion, moderate expansion for India, moderate recovery for Canada, possible downturn for the UK, moderate slowdown for Russia, France and the US, a downturn for Germany, continued slowdown for ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... consistent and well diversified in the past year, long in Japan, US, Hong Kong, Switzerland and short in Australia, Spain, Canada, UK and France." According to Darnell, First Quadrant's investment strategy derives from an ongoing search to profit from ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
... of its Canadian takeover target Alcan Inc, by exercising its rights under the compulsory acquisition provisions of the Canada Business Corporations Act. At 1214 AEDT, the big oil stocks were mixed. Santos had added 21 cents to $13.47 and Oil Search had ...

Polaris sets PACE

... Certification Enterprise (PACE) in Australia, as part of a global initiative that complements testing labs already set up in Canada, Northern Ireland and India. "Sydney has a long and rich history in banking and financial services and this is the most ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2007
... jumped 32 cents, or 1.67 per cent, to $19.49 at 1217 AEDT after its bid for an equal joint venture with Gateway Casinos in Canada received regulatory approval. In other headlines, Macquarie Group reported a 45 per cent surge in first half profit to more ...

FPA chair joins FPSB

... who has been on FPSB's Board of Directors for the last three years. Other representatives on the board are directors from Canada, Chinese Taipei, France, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. Dieters has been in financial services for more ...

Aon beefs up Sydney team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... Hepburn-Brown will take on head of project management and Guy Smith will become head of Aon's professions team. Employed by Aon Canada, O'Reilly was previously senior vice president with Aon Reed Stenhouse since 1998. O'Reilly will be responsible for ...