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European Cities Fund makes first acquisition

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016

Death tax would save budget billions: Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... on productivity. Costello said these kinds of taxes have been used for years by many countries including the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Canada, the Republic of Ireland and some states in the US. Australia did abolish death duties in 1979 but ...

Demographic darlings and disasters revealed

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... "demographic darlings" 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 ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain ...

Monopolies offer best infrastructure returns: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... the toll roads on the eastern seaboard of Australia. Further afield there is Atlantia and VINCI that operate toll roads in Italy and France, respectively. There's also Fraport, which operates Frankfurt airport. Of those stocks, Robertson typically holds ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... decade, especially as a range of countries has started to amend their legislation," the report said, quoting legislation from Italy, the US and New Zealand. CIFR proposes limiting the amount of money that could be raised through crowdfunding at $2 million ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... first, it was less than market expectations for growth of 0.5%. The French economy stagnated (0%) in the June quarter while Italy's eased to 0.2% from 0.3%. Growth slowed to 0.1% from 0.6% in the Netherlands. Needless to say, such growth rates aren't ...

Passive strategies benefit active managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... bank Banca Popolare di Milano, "not because we think that Europe will be ok, but because we see that there's a change in Italy's bankruptcy regulations." "Southern European banks are highly sensitive to macroeconomic trends and we appreciate that as ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... Germany's deficit reached 4% of GDP and debt 63.9% in 2003; the same year, France's deficit was 4.1% and debt grew to 62.9%; Italy's deficit was at 3.5% and debt 105.7%. Well... they made their bed. Everybody's talkin' 'bout the dire consequences for ...