Sovereign wealth funds to avoid the sunlight in Sydney
Sovereign wealth funds are famously publicity shy and this week’s gathering in Sydney of twenty or so of the world’s biggest will continue that tradition. The likes of China Investment Corp, Government...
View ArticleConfusion over size of sovereign wealth funds
As the world’s mightiest sovereign wealth funds wrapped up only their second annual meeting under the auspices of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds in Sydney, confusion remained over...
View ArticleM&A in Asia: Shakespeare and prom queens
Few corporate bidders invoke Shakespeare, a prom queen with too many dates and a dead kangaroo dried in the sun, but Noble Group did just that when its assets-for-shares deal with Australia’s Macarthur...
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Landowners slam Papua New Guinea for amending environment law
Papua New Guinea’s government has upset conservationists, landowners and parliamentarians after amending environmental laws last Friday that will make it harder to prosecute mining projects that damage...
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China’s future leader on tour: Deals and friendships sealed
After visiting Laos, Bangladesh and New Zealand, Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping is expected to end his four-nation regional tour with a bang when he arrives in Australia at the weekend. There is...
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Aussie miners dig Africa
China is not the only country intent on taking a bigger slice of Africa’s resource sector. An Australian government report out on Tuesday said 220 of the country’s mining and oil companies now operated...
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China-Australia ties – too close?
This is the fifth in a beyondbrics series on bubbles in the Chinese economy Few advanced nations in the developed world have hitched a ride on the tails of the Red Dragon to the same degree as...
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