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All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... This is the view of "16,000 purchasing executives from 32 of the world's top economies, including the US, Japan, Germany, France and China which together account for over 85% of global GDP" as the definition of the JP Morgan Global Composite PMI stat ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... Japan have no regulation but do abide by codes of conduct developed by industry groups. Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Singapore all place prohibitions or moratoriums on the use of existing results, even sometimes ...

Australian trustee hits top 10 responsible investment list

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... allocator in the world. It occupies the list with pension investors from the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and France. Canada's Alberta Investment Management Corp took the top position. New America said the top 25 list represents aggregate ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... policy makers to the growing importance of intergenerational equity issues," Goulet said. He said Japan, Austria, Italy and France are examples of developed economies whose pension systems don't represent a sustainable model that will support current ...

Australians failing to act on increased retirement cost

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... move money to increase returns for their retirement funding, placing them in the bottom three globally and just ahead of France and Canada. The HSBC report shows only 25% of working age Australians are using free, online resources. "Planning your own ...

ESG data creates barrier for Aussie instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... signatories, ranks fourth on the United Nations' Principles of Responsible Investment signatories list behind the US, UK and France." The survey also highlights 53% of Australian instos see the lack of robust data on ESG investment as a barrier to further ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... decisions in February of 2010, when we saw the Tea Party emerge during the Obama administration. And despite what happened in France recently, it isn't going away: geopolitical and macro risks arising out of populism will continue for some time," he ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Mutual Pension Insurance in Finland. The top 10 countries by average score are, in order: the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the US, Australia and Japan.

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... results) and far-right nationalist Marine Le Pen (21.6%) - two candidates with very different visions for the future of France. Monsieur Macron is a "zealous pro-European who wants to reinforce ties with Germany, to keep France part of the global trading ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
... inflation slowed to 2.3% from 3.0%. Apart from these, there are other risks the ECB must guard against: political (elections in France and Germany); Trump (trade protectionism); renewed terrorist attacks; and Brexit.