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Australians overconfident when it comes to income risk

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2016
... of respondents stating they would consider buying income protection, this followed by the UK (42%), Hong Kong (45%) and Spain (46%). "When you take into account of all those cultural aspects, financial literacy etc., that does result in relatively low ...

PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... suddenly I was confronted with all these different cultures with Southern Europe versus Northern Europe and Germany versus Spain. It was a massive learning curve but it was great. Having a team with such diversity of culture was so different. Henderson ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... the world total. Australia's A$1.6 trillion GDP is in thirteenth place with a 1.6% share sitting between the twelfth place Spain and the fourteenth placed Russia. Hot on Australia's heels however is Indonesia which is currently in sixteenth place with ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Hungary (-26.6%), Slovenia (-21.2%) and Poland (-13.8%), while increases were observed in Sweden (+14.4%), Romania (+7.5%), Spain (+3.1%) and the Netherlands (+2.1%). HSR rail's 30,000 km global network With talk of High Speed Rail again gathering pace ...

ANZ ETFS readies Eurozone ETF

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... covers 50 of the largest stocks from 12 countries within the Eurozone including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. ESTX offers Australian investors an opportunity to expand the spread of their overseas investments, as well as providing ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... be underway, the Brexit referendum (held on 23 June) just happened to get there first, putting the UK in limboland. So is Spain. It was drowned out by Brexit and its ensuing uncertainty, but the 2016 Spanish elections (held on 26 June) is also in limboland. ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... industry commentators. Following UK voters' decision to leave the European Union on July 24, political figures from Greece, Spain, Italy and France have discussed the possibility of similar referendums. French far right Front National leader Marine Le ...

Macquarie infrastructure head joins KKR

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... experience in the global infrastructure industry in both Sydney and London. KKR global co-head of infrastructure and head of Spain, Jesus Olmos, said: "Tara's considerable experience in both fund investments and advisory will bring a new dimension to ...

Whitehelm Capital and Prime Super partner for bond investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... investment in a senior secured bond issuance by Autovia del Noroeste (Aunor), a mature shadow toll road located in Murcia, Spain. Whitehelm's investment was made on behalf of industry superannuation fund Prime Super, for €33 million (A$48 million). ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... while those that score poorly are "demographic disasters". Economies in this second group include Japan, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Germany. A third group - "demographic deviants" - have favourable population pyramids but relatively weak institutions. ...