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Garnaut Review heralds an economic revolution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... political role in global climate change negotiations, leveraging our influence with the emerging economic superpowers of China, India and Vietnam. But the Review will frighten even those on the left side of the debate who think the end game is just declaring ...

Australia's reversing fertility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... population increase. Australia's 1.5 per cent population growth puts us ahead of the 1.2 per cent 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 ...

CAAM dons emerging markets cap

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
From Russia to Brazil, Africa to India, emerging markets are outpacing their developed counterparts left, right and centre, and Credit Agricole Asset Management's (CAAM) Australian arm is the latest firm to capitalise on this sector's growth. Launched ...

India dominates global IPO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... between 1 January and 15 February compared to the ASX 300 being down 12 per cent and the US S&P down 8 per cent. But IPOs in India are recovering faster than elsewhere, so fast that the dawning economic superpower could salvage and breathe new life in ...

Reputex to tap $554bn sector

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... Overall these markets are experiencing tremendous growth driven by low cost materials and processing in markets such as China, India and Korea." The Reputex Future Index Energy 100 Index, which tracks alternative energy stocks, outperformed global benchmarks ...

Mercer to research India

Leading investment consulting group Mercer is to offer its services in India, where it will research India-based asset and portfolio management groups. The company has appointed Rashmi Mehrotra as its business leader for the new venture and as the head ...

Web 2 social networking websites under attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... steal private information for financial profit. The AVG research revealed major virus threats were found in the Bank of India website, Facebook banner advertisements, an Alicia Keys MySpace page and a US National Hockey league website last year. "Last ...

Australian private equity still going strong

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
Private equity investments in the Asia Pacific region remained relatively benign last year, but Australia is still going strong in the PE fundraising front. According to figures from Thomson Financial's Asia-Pacific private equity review, PE investments ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... growth potential of two underlying baskets of indices. The BRIC II fund gives investors access to the BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India and China - markets through the S&P BRIC 40 index. The Food, Feed, Fuel fund provides exposure to agricultural commodities ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... investors has dropped in the fourth quarter of 2007 but overall sentiment going into 2008 is still robust with investors in India, Hong Kong, and Philippines the most optimistic. But in paradoxically welcome news, the unbridled enthusiasm of Chinese ...