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IWL set to finalise JDV acquisition

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2005
... for online broker JDV Ltd after the last remaining key shareholder agreed to sell its stake on Friday. The Royal Bank of Canada accepted IWL's cash offer for its 28.66 per cent stake in the firm on Friday after fellow major shareholder Westpac Banking ...

CSAM moves into hedge fund market

... across the main global equity markets. Specifically these markets include the US, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy and Canada. The CSAM Global Diversified Strategies on the other hand offers investors access to a portfolio of hedge fund managers employing ...

Australia performs strongly in global sector survey; S&P

... local markets was in financial listings, which produced a negative 2.1% for the month, behind the top performing market, Canada, at 2%. The largest monthly return across all markets was recorded in Latin American utilities which achieved 18.3% for the ...

MIG in arbitration on Canadian toll road spat

Macquarie Infrastructure Group is to pursue a private resolution to its long-running dispute in Canada with the Ontario government over a toll increase on its 407ETR toll road. The dispute has gathered steam since October, when the government of Canada's ...

Australia second cheapest place to do business

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2004
Australia is the second cheapest place in the world to do business and is only marginally more expensive than Canada, a new study has found. Business firm KPMG released the results of its study of 11 industrialised countries. Australia's cost-competitiveness ...

American wheat growers slam FTA

... monopoly," he said in a statement. "Negotiators made the same mistake when the US signed the original free trade agreement with Canada, and American wheat producers are still subject to the unfair trading practices of the monopoly up north. "Again, US ...

US and Australia sign free trade agreement

... Australia exports about two per cent of US dairy imports. The first US free trade agreement with a developed country was with Canada in 1988, five years before the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement that linked the United States and Canada with ...

Macquarie Bank cuts commitment to MEAP fund

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2003
... said it was cutting its investment in its Canadian infrastructure fund, as the fund secured another $C100 million from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Macquarie Bank said it reduced its commitment to Macquarie Essential Assets Partnership (MEAP) ...

CEOs say rate hikes biggest threat to economy: survey

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2003
... profitability growth." The survey involved more than 1,500 CEOs across a range of industries from Australia, the US, UK, Canada and Malaysia, with 171 Australian responses.

OECD leading indicator data reveals moderate to strong recovery ahead

... of change improved for the seventh consecutive month after showing a strong downward trend since June 2002. The CLI for Canada increased by 1.6 points in October and its six-moth rate of change was also up for the sixth consecutive month, following a ...