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Australia ranks sixth in global pension survey

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... retirement policy in 43 nations around the world. Dominated by northern Europe the top 10 countries for retirement outcome are: Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and Canada. Commenting on ...

Financial services needs more female leaders

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... shows women account for 21% of financial services executive committee members in Australia. The global average is 16%, Norway placed on top at 33%, and Australia placed ninth. Managing partner of financial services at Oliver Wyman, Ted Moynihan, said ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... bonds from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Goldman Sachs, Norway's Kommunalbanken, GE Capital Australia Funding and Apple. As VACF is an additional unit class of an existing managed fund ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... for at minus 0.75%, it has the deepest negative interest rate not only in Europe but the world. Not so for Norges Bank - Norway's central bank - which unexpectedly cut interest rates by 25 bps to 0.5% last week and hinted that, "the key policy rate may ...

Norwegian fund reviews ESG approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... pension funds has updated its investment expectations on human and children's rights, water management and climate change. Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, which manages about US$804 billion, recently released its 2015 review of responsible investment ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.

European managers in property buying spree

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015

Climate change to impact financial systems

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
... and mitigate the risks of investing in the sectors most exposed to this phenomenon. Some institutions are following suit; Norway's US$882 billion sovereign wealth fund, for example, announced it was divesting further coal holdings in May.

AMP Capital to acquire Danish infra company

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... approval, in September. Established in 1981, Esvagt has 800 employees and services the oil and gas industry in Denmark and Norway and is expanding operations into the UK. "We are pleased to partner with 3i Infrastructure to acquire Esvagt, a high quality ...

Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... globally, the report said weaker commodity prices had not yet dented financial booms in the likes of Australia, Canada and Norway, "which experienced strong credit and property price growth over the past four quarters." On the topic of monetary policy ...