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Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... 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 ...

Harvard puts property on sale

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... 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 ...

Timbercorp calls in administrators

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... 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 receives $20m inflow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
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 ...

Long and short funds merge to ride crisis

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... 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 takes priority: Zurich

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... 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 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... a 137 per cent rise in annual profit, after benefiting from strong demand for fertiliser, seeds and farm chemicals as drought conditions eased. At 1216 AEDT, shares in the company had were up 18 cents, or 6.9 per cent, to $2.79. "Profit was pretty good," ...

Stagflation policy conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... Australian economy, the RBNZ is expecting a recession. Bollard noted that a confluence of negative factors including the drought, higher interest rates, dearer fuel and food prices and the slump in the housing market contributed to sharply weaken domestic ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... market share dramatically in recent months. After steadily falling from 65 to 58 per cent between 2004 and 2007, the RMBS drought has seen banks reclaim 10 per cent of the market returning them to the glory days when they dominated the market. Non-bank ...

Finsia launches Career Portal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
The Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) takes another step towards addressing the country's talent drought when it launched a new service dedicated to those considering a career in financial services. Finsia has launched Career Portal ...