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Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... significant part of the fund accounting for 37 per cent of the CIF portfolio. Challenger said Southern Water Capital is the fastest growing of the ten water and sewerage companies in the UK. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, transport and utility ...

Coombe calls for better super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... guarantee we are in a golden age. We are the fourth largest managed funds market in the world and Australia boasts the fastest growing superannuation industry in the world. Super is now bigger than the banking system, said Coombe. But as an industry ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
... Association's 2007 Australia's Financial Markets report, "Australia's dynamic financial markets are among the largest, fastest growing and most sophisticated in Asia." Our nation's equity, debt, foreign exchange and derivatives markets have doubled in ...

Australia is Asia's biggest investment market

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2007
... the fourth biggest on the planet. Our economy is the fifteenth biggest in the world and our economic growth is the tenth fastest. Our stock market is the second biggest in the region after Japan's and we have the highest proportion of floating stock ...

Aus and India in free trade talks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2007
... growth, trade in good and services, investment and other commercial linkages." Truss said India represented Australia's fastest growing export market, increasing at more than 34 per cent per annum over the past five years. The Federal Government will ...

Former ASFA head moves to First State Super

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
... of employer and member needs." Smith said she was "delighted to be joining the board of one of Australia's largest and fastest growing super funds." Smith begins in October this year. First State Super is among the top ten largest super funds in Australia ...

China's rates up again

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... either way China raised interest rates for the third time since March, by 27bp to 6.84 per cent in an attempt to cool the fastest pace of economic growth in 12 years and combat record inflation. In further moves to take the steam out of the stock market ...

Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... fiscal year. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index gained 9.3 points to 6274.9, up 23.67 per cent on the 2006 financial year, the fastest rate of growth since 1987. The all ordinaries added 13.2 points to 6310.6, up 25.18 per cent on the 2006 financial year. ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... consumption will rein in the rate of growth somewhat. While two of the four BRIC nations entered the top 10 list for the fastest-growing high net wealth populations in 2006, the MCSI's BRIC index gained 52.9 per cent over a meagre 15.7 per cent for the ...