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Scary Money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... interest rates a week before. Denmark's Danmarks Nationalbank reduced its benchmark rate by 75 basis points to 4.25 per cent. Sweden's Riksbank switched into overdrive and lowered its key rate by 1.75 basis points to 2 per cent -- the biggest reduction ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... as much as US$52.5 billion to two new limited-liability companies that will buy AIG's toxic assets. So were the Swedes. Sweden's national debt office seized the country's largest publicly traded investment bank - 205-year old D. Carnegie & Co. AB - because ...

Skandia adds online group insurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... Andrew Boldeman, TOWER Australia head of group life. Earlier this year, Skandia's chief executive Ross Laidlow moved to Sweden, leaving John Gethin-Jones and Andrew Black as chief executives of the Intech and Skandia retail businesses, respectively. ...

TAAM wins $100m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
One of Sweden's largest pension managers, the $43 billion AP1, has awarded Treasury Asia Asset Management with a $100 million Asian equities mandate. The mandate has been in the pipeline for six months but was funded mid September. The $100 million ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... England cut its base rate to 4.5 per cent, the Bank of Canada to 2.5 per cent, the Swiss National Bank to 2.5 per cent and Sweden's Riksbank to 4.25 per cent. With its benchmark rate at a low 0.5 per cent, the Bank of Japan was unable to participate ...

Australians lead FM pack

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... emerging yards ahead of Americans who averaged $47,124 per capita, $37,266 in France, $25,753 in Canada and $25,559 in Sweden. The figures reflect trends up to the end of December last year, prior to the market entering a further slump triggered by the ...

Swedish pension lessons for Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, has suggested Australia look to Sweden's nationalised pension system for a model of how to operate a low-cost superannuation system. But is this the right comparison? The centrally ...

Finland the most low risk

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2008
... the delayed effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the report says. Hong Kong ranked second, Singapore third, while Sweden and Australia snagged fourth and fifth positions respectively.

New CEOs for Skandia, Intech

Skandia's chief executive Ross Laidlaw is leaving for Sweden - placing the Australian business in the hands of two separate chief executives for its platform and asset management arms. Laidlaw, who set up Skandia's Australian business seven years ago ...

Australia number 1 in managed funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... Australians boast an average of $63,794 invested in managed funds - a long way ahead of the US ($43,458), France ($37,451) and Sweden ($24, 567). On average, Australians invest nearly 47 per cent more into managed funds compared with the average US citizen ...