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Wealth gap narrows in China

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... developing country of 1.3 billion people. Inequality within rural areas is nearing "danger" levels as hundreds of millions shun farming for better-paid city work, causing a widening wealth gap, said a report by the state-linked Centre for Chinese Rural ...

ILB manager Ardea launches new fund

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... close integration with rapidly industrialising Asia, high global commodity prices - not just for mining, but for food and farming land as well - and the lasting inflationary legacy of policy decisions currently being made in the US and Europe. The new ...

Govt push for foreign infra investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Trade Minister Craig Emerson has argued in favour of foreign investment in local infrastructure, particularly in water and farming. In an interview with ABC Radio, Minister Emerson said overseas investment could help make Australia the food bowl of Asia ...

Former planner pushes for cruelty free super

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... who do not want their super used as funding for issues they may be ethically opposed to, such as animal testing, factory farming and the live animal trade. While Cruelty Free Super is a new investment product, it is based on almost 20 years of animal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... eight points. Turnover of $NZ87.2 million ($A69.73 million) was boosted by the sale of 10 million shares in New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay. Brokers speculated the vendor was the receiver of Rural Portfolio Capital. RBA Head of Financial Stability ...

RFM to bring cashflow back to Great Southern MIS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... orchards' operating costs. RFM is an independent Canberra-based funds manager, founded in 1997, which specialises in the farming sector. It was acquired by Great Southern in August 2007, which collapsed last year with estimated debt of $700 million. ...

Macquarie wins award for agricultural fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... non-profit clients. "To date, Paraway Pastoral Company Limited, which is the operating entity of the fund, has acquired 16 farming properties across Australia, spanning from the Northern Territory to New South Wales," said Tim Hornibrook, MAFM director. ...

Fudge this

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... cracking down harder on listed companies, including financial firms, following an embarrassing blunder on Wednesday by NZ Farming Systems Uruguay for a line in its report regarding depreciation that read: "Fudge this to equal depn in FA note 11$ 2391..." ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... National Australia Bank agribusiness economist told the Southern Cross. The reports of upbeat crop prices expectations in farming district newspapers mirror reports in institutional investment newsletters foretelling the sector's long awaited bounce ...

Economic round-up: Creaming cheese exports

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
... higher. However, with the currency trading as high as it has been (US0.8587c in the last 24 hours) Australian exporters in farming and manufacturing are struggling to remain competitive. Fledgling mining companies have been feeling the pinch and cancelling ...