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Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... disclosure. They are headed by India, but also including Brazil and South Korea. The Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, and Norway also figure prominently. The United States, the largest fund market and one with a long history in PHD, has a regulated ...

World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests coal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
Norway's Parliament has voted to divest further coal holdings from the country's US$882 billion sovereign wealth fund. Specifically, the country's finance committee will sell ownership in companies with more than a 30% stake in coal-related business. ...

Senior female execs needed: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... Bennett said. At 17.5%, figures for 2013 put Australia ahead of the global average of 12.7% of women in boards, but behind Norway (39.7%), Germany (23%) and New Zealand (19.6%). 'Achieving gender diversity in Australia: the ugly, the bad and the good' ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... private investment and a more rapid recovery, due, for example, to mining and energy booms, as in Australia, Canada, and Norway," the report said. The IMF has cautioned that monetary policy should not respond to the decline in headline inflation from ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... in October 2013 to $6.31 trillion in March 2015. According to Preqin's research, the largest sovereign wealth funds are Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (with $818 billion in assets under management) and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, with ...

Investec property fund acquires $8.1m warehouse

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... lease to industrial engineering design company Wilhelmsen Manufacturing Australia (WMA). WMA is owned by Skips AS Tudor Norway, the private investment vehicle of the Wilhelmsen shipping and logistics family. The remaining income (7%) is underpinned by ...

Phone usage reveals opportunity for financial services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... 2,000 mobile consumers places Australia as the fifth most concentrated smartphone market in the world after Singapore, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Part of a global four year longitudinal Deloitte study of 37,000 consumers spanning 22 countries - the research ...

Women-led companies better for investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
... Australian company board directors (ranked 14th) compared to 17.9% in the UK (ranked 12th) and 13.7% in the US (ranked 21st). Norway topped the list with 40%.

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... in the south-east bloc. "The developed world can also be handily described by this matrix", said Power. "Oil-exporting Norway is in the north-east; Australia, Canada and New Zealand are in the north-west; the US and UK are in the south-west; and Japan ...

Sixteen Aussie funds make top 300 pension funds list

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... fund once again topped the list with its $1.2 trillion, and was the only fund to break into the trillion. It was followed Norway's Government Pension Fund, with funds under management of $858 billion. The Netherlands' ABP came in third with $415 billion ...