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Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
"Growth rates for many of the euro area economies have been marked up, especially for Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, reflecting the stronger momentum in domestic demand and higher external demand. Growth in Spain, which has been well above potential ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... semi-government, agencies and supra-nationals in the core G7 defined countries − Canada, US (North America), France, Germany, Italy (Europe ex-UK Core), UK and Japan, as well as satellite countries. About two years ago, it signed a five-year lease ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Index's year to date return is negative 7.4%. "International developments." China and the Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit concerns, Brexit concerns, and the shrinking of ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... 1.7%, respectively). That's still cool. But if the slowdown in the region's three biggest economies persists - Germany and Italy are just a quarter away from a technical recession and France's year-on-year GDP growth have trended lower from ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... has slowed to 0.4% in the first and second quarters of 2018 and by just 0.2% in the third - led by a 0.2% contraction in Germany (its biggest economy) and nil growth in Italy (its third biggest). The year-on-year growth rate in Eurozone GDP growth more ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... 2017. The risk premium demanded on Italian bonds - as measured by the 10-year bond yield differential between Italy and Germany - has doubled to 3.2% from 1.6% at the start of 2018. So far, Quitaly speculations - that emerged in the first half of this ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... countries. SSGA's Global Retirement Reality Report polled 9400 people across Australia, US, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Italy. The study charted the 9400 respondents' self-reported levels of happiness against how their country's ...

Diversification mandates lead the way: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... interested in risk premia," Goodworth said. The attraction to risk premia has seen strong interest from regions such as the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada and Australia, he added. "The aim is not to lock the portfolio down with a hedge. The aim is to diversify ...

Financial literacy critical to European retirement

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... April, found more than 80% of UK and Italian residents do not own any investment products. This was closely followed by Germany (79%). On average, about one quarter (23%) of respondents from each of the six regions surveyed said a lack of understanding ...

VicSuper among top pension funds, others climb

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
... net new entrants, second only to the United States," he said. "Many other developed countries including Canada, U.K., Germany and others have actually had reductions in the number of funds they have on the list." Aussie funds' gains were led by three ...