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Mercer appoints India MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... Bangalore-based operations. Ravichander previously worked at IT services company, Perot Systems as president and managing director for India and Asia Pacific and has also held leadership positions at Oracle, HP and MCI Canada. This appointment follows ...

High Net Worth wealth tops $42tr

Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... years of bullrun conditions. But it may be that economic drivers in emerging markets are coming under pressure as well. India for example, while holding up its GDP growth at around 9 per cent is experiencing their worst inflation, at upwards of 13 per ...

Resources boom has only just begun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... world has ever seen. "Over the next few years 1.4 billion more people will be moving into cities, especially in China and India. When they do they will require the same things we require - schools, air conditioning, roads, hospitals and even sporting ...

Market wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... a softer yen, while Daiichi Sankyo surged nearly five per cent after a newspaper reported it planned to launch a bid for India's biggest generic drugmaker, Ranbaxy. The benchmark Nikkei average added 162.31 points to end at 14,183.48, snapping a two-day ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... delivery fell more than $US2.00 to $US122.30 per barrel on the back of a sharp increase in US inventories and on news that India and Malaysia had cut fuel subsidies. Woodside Petroleum lost $4.15, or 6.49 per cent, to $59.45, Oil Search fell 26 cents ...

ABN AMRO launches Altera

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... and commodities with the security of a 100 per cent capital guarantee. The fund will provide exposure to Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) markets, and will be open to Australian retail investors. Paul Cordeiro, Head of Retail Structured Products ...

Norway revises pension investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... exposure to emerging markets will be broadened to include "second tier" emerging countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, India, Morocco, Russia and Mexico. The portfolio's allocation to emerging markets will be boosted to 10 per cent, a five per ...

AUD hits 24 year high against greenback

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
The Australian dollar this morning hit a 24 year high against the US greenback. The AUD was trading at 95.5 cents, up 2 per cent since the beginning of the month and up a staggering 16.2 per cent since this time last year. Against the Euro and the Chinese ...

Alternative investment giant eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... estate opportunity fund (Blackstone Real Estate Partners), fund of hedge funds business and two closed-end mutual funds (The India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund).