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Australia tanks in global dividend index

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... and although Q1 is small in terms of dividend payments a large increase from India was not enough to offset big cuts in Brazil. Emerging market dividends fell 16.9% on an underlying basis.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... "after it has had time to further analyse the inflation trends in the June quarter and the March quarter national accounts". Brazil retail sales It's been a commonly accepted observation that the Olympics boost the economy of the host country. With less ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
In June next year the gross value of Australia's annual farm production is expected to pass $60 billion for the first time, a reflection of improved prospects in livestock and cropping industries. But a lack of consultant coverage means the opportunity ...

Ghosts of emerging markets past not worth the risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... there, we simply cannot find companies which pass our quality test," said Bell. "More recently we've seen countries such as Brazil and Russia... we've seen how the impact of lower oil prices has decimated the Russian economy... how corruption in Brazil ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Brazil unemployment The unemployment rate in Latin America's biggest economy jumped to 8.2% in February from 7.6% in the previous month. This is slightly higher than expectations for a rise to 8.1% but is the highest since May 2009. Hardly surprising ...

Australian dividend growth outpaces global peers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2016
... Europe also performed well, while the UK lagged. China saw its first annual decline in dividends, while India surpassed Brazil as the third largest payer in the emerging markets. There was strong Australian underlying growth of 14.8%. "Banks did very ...

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 ...