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Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... risks to their equity portfolios given the current market volatility. Net of fees, the European version has outperformed its OECD CPI + 5% benchmark since inception in May 2016 by 4.8% per annum. Whitehelm said the fund typically aimed for core infrastructure ...

IFM Investors reports $114m in FY19 profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... said the geographical location of its investments would be dictated by the investors but IFM would continue to invest in OECD countries. It is not yet looking for opportunities in India, which needs a US $1 trillion investment in its infrastructure ...

Aussie income fund added to platforms

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
... return of 10.8 % p.a over three years. According to RARE, this performance exceeds the fund's performance benchmark, the G7 OECD Inflation index +5.5%, by 3.4% p.a. RARE portfolio manager Shane Hurst said: "The investment objective of the Income Fund ...

World leaders back impact investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... expressed support to mobilise additional resources for development. The G20 statement said: "We support the implementation of the OECD DAC Blended Finance Principles for Unlocking Commercial Finance for the SDGs. "We welcome the role of the Leading Group ...

Income only falls by 11% in retirement: Grattan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... percentage point revision to its earlier projections published in November. "This is well above the 70% benchmark endorsed by the OECD, and more than enough to maintain pre-retirement living standards," Grattan said. "Many low-income Australians will ...

Perpetual raising $440m for credit trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... deposits," Korber said. "On a global scale, Australians have one of the lowest allocations to fixed income assets in the OECD. Generally, individual investors may find it difficult to create a diversified portfolio of fixed income assets because some ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... are so far in the world in 2019 and it'll be so perfectly rational to extrapolate growth in the global economy - the OECD has just downgraded its global growth forecasts to 3.3% this year (from 3.5% predicted in November 2018) and 3.4% in 2020 (from ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... lifetime of a pensioner, Illidge said many former government employees are now living in or are on the brink of poverty. The OECD estimates about one-third of elderly Australians are living below the poverty line. The group's closure serves as a ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... property. So much so that the latest detailed report on Australia by the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) warned that, although the "current trajectory" of falling house prices "would suggest a soft landing... some risk of ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... already about the case of the slowdown in global growth. The Organisations for Economic Development and Cooperation's (OECD) recently-released the OECD Economic Outlook and Interim Economic Outlook report merely formalised this "known known" and ...