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Australian retirement outcomes among the best

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... placed sixth overall for retirement outcomes in Natixis' Global Retirement Index, sitting behind Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and New Zealand. According to Natixis, Australia's ranking is attributed to an improvement in its "finances" score ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... from Iran), supply disruptions in Libya, trouble in Iraq's oil-rich southern region and a strike by oil workers in Norway combined to keep the price of crude elevated. Crude oil prices dropped sharply overnight as some or all of these have been halted ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) remains the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, buoyed by an equities portfolio propelling most of its US$1.06 trillion assets under management. Preqin's latest sovereign wealth fund asset report shows ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... mid-market energy infrastructure in continental Europe. It followed the acquisition of SAE, an energy form waste plant in Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden. Whitehelm has invested about €5.8 billion ($8.7 billion) in its 19-year history ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... the Netherlands (78.8) are the only two pension systems ranked higher than Australia in 2017. New entrants to the index, Norway and New Zealand, achieved credible overall index values of 74.7 and 67.4 respectively. Knox said Australia's index value fell ...

Whitehelm acquires Netherlands asset for pension funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... mid-market energy infrastructure in continental Europe. It follows the acquisition of SAE, an energy form waste plant in Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden. "While large trophy assets sold through competitive auctions are attracting ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... (US$ millions) Rank Fund Market Total Assets 1 Government Pension Investment Japan $1,237,636 2 Government Pension Fund Norway $893,088 3 Federal Retirement Thrift U.S. $485,575 4 National Pension South Korea $462,161 5 ABP Netherlands $404,310 6 National ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Pensioenfonds ABP and Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn in the Netherlands, Kommunal Landspenjonskasse Gjensidige Forsikringsselskap in Norway, Fjarde AP-Fonden in Sweden and Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance in Finland. The top 10 countries by average ...

Tobacco and super funds must split

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... by any means, including through sovereign wealth funds or public pension funds, though only Australia, New Zealand and Norway have implemented that provision. King cited reputational risk as an incentive for institutions to divest from the tobacco industry ...

AMP Capital boosts Infrastructure Equity team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... most recently an independent consultant with ESVAGT, a provider of emergency response and rescue services in Denmark and Norway's offshore oil and gas industries in which AMP Capital has a 50% stake. "Phil's extensive experience, which includes infrastructure ...