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AMP Capital introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... Operation will now screen out companies that have more than a 20% exposure to mining thermal coal, exploration and development of oil sands, brown-coal (or lignite), coal-fired power generation, transportation of oil from oil sands or conversion of coal ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance data for March. In company news, gas and oil explorer and producer Santos holds its annual general meeting in Adelaide. The market on Thursday rose, with the benchmark ...

Citi wins custody of Norway's Oil Fund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... Management (NBIM), the body that manages Norway's $850 billion Government Pension Fund Global. Colloquially known as 'the Oil Fund', according to Towers Watson it is the second largest pension fund in the world. Under the deal, Citi will provide global ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... 64 cents lower at $61.42 and Fortescue Metals had shed six cents to $5.06. Gold miner Newcrest was down 21 cents at $10.53. Oil Search had shot up 18 cents, or 2.1 per cent, to $8.98 while Santos was 14.5 cents higher at $13.665 on news that gas production ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... 12 months and was actually down by 0.2% in the March quarter. Worst, this occurs at the same time that it is importing more oil (due to the shutdown of the Fukushima plant) for its energy needs. Over the past 12 months ended March, imports increased ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... Billiton was up five cents at $38.15, Rio Tinto was down 36 cents at $63.01 and Fortescue Metals had dipped two cents to $5.31. Oil Search firmed five cents to $8.69 after it said its key PNG liquefied natural gas (LNG) project will deliver its first ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... investors worried about the impact of the Ukraine crisis on Europe's largest economy. Germany imports about one-third of its oil and gas from Russia and is Russia's leading trade partner in Europe - its third largest worldwide. Investor sentiment in ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... dominance. Less than 25% of the UK's FTSE All Share index, for example, is made up of financials, while around 21% is made up of oil, gas and basic resources. In the US S&P 500, financials make up 16.5%, while in the S&P Europe 350 index, financials ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... Minister Ian Macfarlane and Santos vice president eastern Australia James Baulderstone are scheduled to speak at the APPEA's oil and gas conference which continues for the third of its four-day run. In equities news, Treasury Wine Estates chief executive ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... Group/Housing Industry Association performance of construction index (PCI), also for March, is also due out. Meanwhile, the APPEA oil and gas conference continues for the second of its four-day run. West Australian Premier Colin Barnett, Woodside chairman ...