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| | | ... to Fidelity's Australian equities fund manager, Paul Taylor. Fidelity's win comes in the midst of an investment mandate drought. Rainmaker data shows that the number of mandates changing hands is down, with 500 swaps in the year up to 31 March 2012. ... |
| | | | ... improved, Australia can position itself as the "food bowl to Asia". "There's no doubt that we have a reputation for being drought-prone but that obviously has an adverse affect on our capacity to be reliable suppliers of food to Asia. So we need to do ... |
| | | | Be careful what you wish for. After many, many years of drought, Australia got what it wished for - the green lawn inducing, agriculture produce growing rain. Suddenly the rural sector was looking good. Harvest would be a-plenty. Not only would Australians ... |
| | | | ... of the moment. Just think. Isn't it also possible that given the bounty Australia is experiencing at present time - the drought has broken, commodity prices are high, China's still buying, house prices continue to rise, employers are hiring - that Australians ... |
| | | | ... population is putting finite resources under pressure. "What's happened this year in terms of wheat production in Russia and drought in Uzbekistan (largest wheat exports) has drawn a lot of attention to food security, especially seeing that they are ... |
| | | | ... Poor's, the search for reasons for the poor performance needs to go well beyond the downturn in the market and credit drought. "The practice of gearing up against increasing asset values and making distributions of unrealised capital, often debt funded ... |
| | | | ... for woodchip in Japan, Australia's largest customer; weaker prices for olive oil and almond and the Murray Darling Basin drought. Last year's earnings also fell because of high farm operating costs, including fuel and fertiliser costs. In the full year ... |
| | | | Plato Investment Management has received over $20 million of inflows from clients in the past month, breaking a cash drought that lasted more than half a year. Don Hamson, Plato Investment Management managing director, said inflows had remained stagnant ... |
| | | | ... are looking at is the ability to consolidate operations." It is a win-win situation where hedge funds suffering from a drought of inflows reduce their overheads while their new partner, the long-only funds manager, can tap into their existing trading ... |
| | | | ... climate change on their bottom lines alongside the issues of the global economic meltdown," said Smith. From the prolonged drought periods that devastated Australian farmers to flash floods across south eastern Queensland, the effects of climate change ... |
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