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PGI appoints CEO for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Foreign Service in Washington D.C., and a masters degree in European Union studies at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, where she studied on a Rotary fellowship. She received her law degree from Georgetown University Law and is a member of the ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... of GDP S&P US$ Billion US$000 % % Ratings 1. Ireland 2,311 550 811 31.5 AA+ 2. United Kingdom 9,388 154 336 47.2 AAA 3. Belgium 1,618 155 327 80.8 AA+ 4. Hong Kong 660 94 295 14.5 AA+ 5. Netherlands 2,439 146 268 43.0 AAA 6. Switzerland 1,304 171 264 ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold their respective 75 per cent and 67 per cent share of Fortis' assets to BNP Paribas; to shore up its capital ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... to loosen its securities quality rules to facilitate the bailout of German firm Hypo Real Estate; the government's of Belgium and Luxembourg sold their respective 75 per cent and 67 per cent share of Fortis' assets to BNP Paribas; to shore up its capital ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... Ian Manton-Hall. The fate of Fortis took a sharp turn for the better this morning (Sydney time) after the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg knotted out a $19.5 billion (11.2 billion Euro) rescue package to save the bank from following ...

AXA North open for non-super savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... marketing. The hedging strategy has been developed and tested across the AXA Group's US, Japan, Italy, Spain, Germany and Belgium offices. Emery said the product would appeal to those wanting to protect personal savings and self managed super fund trustees. ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... juggernauts and why the Country Party was so dominant. Behind the UK, France took 9 per cent of our exports, followed Belgium which took 8 per cent and Germany 7 per cent. India took 6 per cent, Japan took about 3 per cent, China about 2 per cent and ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... UK is raising its retirement age to 68, Singapore and Denmark is increasing theirs to 67, Japan, South Korea, Austria, Belgium to 65, India to 60, Hungary to 64, and Italy to 61. "Recent strikes and disturbances in France have highlighted the sensitivities ...

Australians top list but still underinsured

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... 2007 AXA Protection Report compared attitudes to life risks and rates of individual insurance take-up between Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Despite ranking ...

BNP Australia NZ appoints new CEO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... and held a number of leadership positions BNP in Europe, most recently elevating BNP to be the leading foreign bank in Belgium. Joint chief operating officer Georges Chodron de Courcel said, "Didier has an impeccable reputation in the banking community ...