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US growth stable due to resilient consumer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... of people in the global workforce from 1.5 billion to 3 billion people. When you take down the borders in China, India, Brazil, Russia and Indonesia, we have hundreds of millions of very low wage underemployed workers coming to the global workforce," ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind farms and hydro-electric projects across Australia, Chile and Brazil. The reported 10-figure deal means about five million industry superannuation fund members will, for the time being, have ...

King Irving Funds Management launches

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... and asset manager of Pacific Alliance," Mulligan added. "Until now, investment in Latam has been expressed only through Brazil, which does not share a similar economic or governance footprint as the Pacific Alliance, and investors may not have been aware ...

Goldman Sachs calls time on BRICs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has closed its BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Fund and integrated it into a wider emerging markets fund. After the firm first coined the term in 2001, the move effectively brings the BRIC era to an end. GSAM notified ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... company, said Oct. 21 iron ore output rose 7 percent to 61.3 million tons in the three months to Sept. 30, two days after Brazil's Vale said it produced a record 88.2 million tons in the period. Rio reported third-quarter output rose 12 percent."

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... (which it should import)". (Business Dictionary.com). China should have left the digging and the mining to Australia and Brazil and Canada and South Africa et al and focused instead on producing products where it has comparative advantage, such as knock-offs ...

University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
British American Tobacco has landed among Sydney University's top international shareholdings in emerging markets as a balance is being sought in the university's environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment framework. Sydney University recently ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... glut in commodities which, by extension, dampens the growth outlook for commodity exporting countries - Australia, Canada, Brazil, Russia, the Middle East - which lowers demand some more. And then there's terrorism - ISIS, Bangkok bombings and over the ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... Fund (IMF). Likewise, China is rumoured to be putting its hands up to buy the IMF's remaining 203 tonnes. South Korea, Brazil and even tiny Sri Lanka are reportedly also considering beefing up their holdings of the yellow metal. China, we just learned ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... disclosure. Major emerging markets countries lead the way in portfolio disclosure. They are headed by India, but also including Brazil and South Korea. The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, and Norway also figure prominently. The United States, the ...