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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... construction output Preliminary figures from Eurostat show that construction output in the Eurozone increased by 1.8% in July, six times faster than June's 0.3% rise, driven by a 4.8% surge in France - the region's second biggest economy. Strong monthly ...

Pilot, surgeon and soccer coach join FPA line up

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... workforce as a practice orthopaedic surgeon. Holt will share his journey and explore what it really takes to thrive during times of great adversity. "We are excited to be joined by such a motivating array of speakers, each bringing different life experiences ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... cut: Jones cited Colgate Palmolive as an example. "It's grown its earnings base 12%, and the stock's over 100% - from 15-16 times earnings to the high 20s. As an owner of Colgate Palmolive today, if the earnings base is going to slowly grow, the multiple ...

$1.6 million cap will not derail retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... of lasting to age 95," McCulloch said. Milliman has also calculated whether the $1.6 million cap will provide about four times the single Age Pension, or approximately $83,000. "An $83,000 annual income can be sustained to male life expectancy of age ...

The twenty-first night of September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2016
... 24%, according to Reuters). Madam Janet would not want that. No siree, not after each and every FOMC statement in recent times stressed that the Fed would adjust rates depending on the economic data and "readings on financial and international developments". ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund gets top rating again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... five-year information ratio of 0.47 against the peer average of 0.07. This indicates that Brandywine has been more than six times more efficient than the median manager in using its 'risk budget' to generate excess return for investors. The Fund is available ...

Super funds must harvest farmland

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... are working with CSIRO to develop - if we can prove that up, once fed to prawns, it will actually have them growing 1.5 times faster than on conventional feed. That's where the real exciting stuff starts to come out," she said. VicSuper head of equities ...

UK corporate pension deficit swells

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... exacerbated the problems many companies already faced in funding defined-benefit pension schemes, according to the Financial Times. Defined-benefit schemes use the average yields of high-quality bonds to calculate their future liabilities, so lower yields ...

Top pension funds slide for first time since GFC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... in the past five years with winners likely being determined by having fully diversified portfolios that perform well in times of stress and a focus on total rather than relative returns. In Australia, each fund's approach to currency has also been a ...

Super CIOs say short-termism endemic

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... investment results in the short term. "The ratings agencies and the way they are portrayed in the press is unhelpful at times. It can be quite short-term focused and you always get in a rush to go to press right after year-end to see who the top 10 in ...