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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... subcontinent. GDP growth in India expected to approach 8% according to a Reuters poll of economists, fuels expectations that Indian inflation is on track to rise to 6%-plus over the coming year. World stock markets hit A$80 trillion World stock markets ...

Mirae backs Asian consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... its ongoing equities strategy in the region. During a recent trip to Australia, Mirae Asset Global Investments' head for Indian equity funds, Rahul Chadha, said if economies such as China, India, the Philippines and Indonesia get their act together there ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... expectations for an "improvement" to minus 3.7% and marks the third straight month of accelerating PPI deflation in Japan. Indian WPI inflation Japan wants inflation, India doesn't but both are getting what they don't want. India's wholesale prices increased ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... production inched higher by 0.2% in March but this represents a substantial slowdown from 1.0% in February and 3.5% in January. Indian industrial production and inflation Indian industrial production slowed to a mere 0.1% in the year to March, down from ...

IFM Investors sells stake in Indiana Toll Road

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
IFM Investors has sold a significant stake in one of its core infrastructure assets, the Indiana Toll Road Concession Company (ITRCC). The global fund manager purchased ITRCC for US$5.7 billion in March last year, and the recent sale saw US pension ...

Norwegian pension fund drops 52 coal companies

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
Norges Bank has announced that 52 coal companies, including two Australian ones, will be excluded from the roughly $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. The exclusions came after the introduction in February of a new "product-based coal criterion" ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
Australia migration The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the percentage of Australian born overseas reached their highest level in "over a century" (120 years). As at 30 June 2015, 28.2% -- or 6.7 million -- of the country's resident ...

Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
A co-investment in a US toll road will become an industry superannuation fund's second largest infrastructure exposure after Port Botany and Port Kembla in New South Wales. Cbus has announced an investment of $140 million in the Indiana Toll Road (ITR) ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... residents living in India will be able to claim the Australian Age Pension without having to return to Australia, while Indian residents living in Australia will have access to Indian retirement pensions." O'Dwyer said the agreement will improve economic ...

AXA IM to launch impact fund in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... million, but they often average $50 million. One of the investments is in Singapore-based Quadria, a fund that invests in Indian healthcare facilities for underserved population. "For example, they would be building a hospital servicing people with things ...