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Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... misunderstood as an investment opportunity. "Looking at the shorter term, Mexico is an outperformer while longer term Brazil and Chile are very successful, they are going through challenging transitions at this moment but their outlook is very positive." ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... has slowed too much and we may be in for a hard landing." Australia's major airlines were down in early trade as ash from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano continued to keep some flights on the ground in Tasmania, New Zealand and Melbourne. Qantas ...

The seventh week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... Christchurch and the disruptions to Australian, New Zealand and South American flights caused by the ash cloud from the eruption of Chile's Puyehue volcano, and many would have panicked into selling from watching the their equity monitor screens blood ...

The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... past 15 months while the price of foodstuffs had risen close to 30 per cent. Plot a chart of say Argentina's - or Peru or Chile -- stock market performance alongside food prices (or crude oil ) and you'll see a strong positive correlation. The constitution ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2011
... to $46.45 on the company's announcement it will invest $US319 million ($A310.51 million) in its Escondida copper mine in Chile. Mr Saffer said the miner's announcement late on Wednesday that its planned Olympic Dam expansion had reached feasbility stage ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Whoa boy! Hold your horses! QE2 expectations are going out of hand. It started with just over a couple of billions and then grew, and grew, and grew. Just two days ago, I wrote about St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank Director of Research Christopher Waller ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... comparable to other countries. In South Africa, for example, pension fund assets are estimated at about one third of GDP. In Chile, pension funds assets are at about two thirds of GDP, while in Australia, super fund assets are about equal to GDP.

Future Fund behind Azerbaijan on transparency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... of how it exercises its proxy voting rights in Australia. Topping the index and scoring the highest scores possible were Chile's SWF, UAE-based Mubadala, Singapore's Temasek, Norway's Government Pension Fund-Global and the New Zealand Superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... weak banks, as metals prices jumped sharply on fears of disruption to copper supplies after the devastating earthquake in Chile. In London, the FTSE 100 index of leading shares finished up 51.42 points, or 0.96 per cent, at 5,405.94 points. FRANKFURT ...

No let up in ING asset sales

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... Australian and New Zealand insurance business to ANZ, sold their Chilean annuity and mortgage business to Corp Group Vida Chile SA, and sold ING Canada. Driving this pruning down of ING to its core is their "Back to Basics" program, announced last month ...