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QIC beefs up energy team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2024
QIC Infrastructure's specialist energy and utilities practice has appointed three new senior executives to originate new investment opportunities. Paul Maguire, Richard Van Breda and Mark Irwin have taken up senior positions within a business that ...

Young, millionaire investors challenge stereotypes: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
New research shows young investors are buying and holdings stocks more than their older counterparts, despite the current environment. During the quarter, ending March 31, younger investors were the highest adopters of a buy-and-hold strategy compared ...

ADB invests in sustainable start-ups

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made its first investments in start-ups that help address development challenges in emerging countries, mainly focusing on climate and gender impact. The ADB Ventures Equity Fund, the bank's first investment fund ...

CommInsure awards $300m risk premia mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
CommInsure has awarded a $300 million mandate to a global asset manager. The funds were invested in GAM's Systematic Alternative Risk Premia product. GAM, headquartered in Zurich, operates in 13 countries and provides investment solutions for institutions ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... policy normalisation. Concerns over China's slowdown - which became even more concerning after the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) shaved the country's growth outlook to 6.8% this year (from 7.2% it predicted six months before). Not only that, the ADB ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... from New York to Rio and old London town (sorry, NY's ego's still in the way). The good news is that unlike the IMF and the ADB - which you read about mainly when economic disasters strike - China's AIIB would be pro-active. The Asian Infrastructure ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
Irregularities amounting to more than $US5 billion ($A5.41 billion) have been found at China's sovereign wealth fund and two large state-owned banks, according to the state auditor, offering a glimpse into the opaque management of government-controlled ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... year despite the IMF's recent downgrade of the country's 2013 growth to 5.9% from 6.0%. While the Asian Development Bank (ADB) appears to be more optimistic predicting growth of 6.7% for this year, this is a sharp reduction from the 7.5% growth it predicted ...

More jobs, more jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... more serious note, I think the recent round of quantitative easing from the Fed, the ECB and the BOJ, along with the IMF, the ADB and the WB's downgrade to the global outlook, has increased the odds that the RBA would deliver another rate reduction on ...

Time to buy the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... and debt crisis in Europe and slow growth in America. The World Bank's chopping spree follows the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) own only last week where it lowered its estimate of Asian growth down to 6.1% in 2012 (from 6.9% predicted last April) and ...
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