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Future Fund appoints head of ESG risk management

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... appointed a new head of environmental, social and governance risk management. Joel Posters will relocate from The Netherlands to take up the role and is expected to start in August 2014. Until recently Posters was global head of sustainability with De ...

OMFG! Australia could lose an A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... lodged their own lawsuits against the credit ratings agency: "S&P is now expected to face similar lawsuits in the Netherlands and possibly in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand, and could be forced to pay compensation for losses from complex ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... doubled in the first quarter from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while that of Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Finland are back with a minus sign in front. A central banker's work is never done, eh?

AMP launches infrastructure and real estate UCITS platform

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... its Global Listed Infrastructure Fund and Global Real Estate Securities Fund available to investors in the UK, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The platform was made available after demand from global institutional clients for pooled fund exposure to ...

Low volatility investing exploits low risk anomaly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... investors taking unnecessary risks, said a major European investment manager. Frank Wirds, client portfolio manager at the Netherlands-based investment manager Robeco said while it is well known that there is an association between risk and returns ...

Retiree 4pct drawdown limits too high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... a 4% withdrawal rate with a probability of portfolio success of 95%," the report noted. The report also refers the Netherlands, where an excessively high drawdown rate is known as "increasing the risk of ruin". Focus on the drawdown rate intensified ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... in the 'Asian century', Australia is ranked only 10th for direct M&A investment into SEA placing it behind even The Netherlands and Russia.

Australia's pension pool fastest growing in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... from DB towards DC continued, with 47% of assets now in DC, a 2% rise from last year. However, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands still overwhelmingly favoured DB, with 4%, 2% and 6% of assets respectively in DC funds. In terms of asset allocation, Australia ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... 89.4 reading in May. The mood's not only brighter in the relatively stronger economies of Germany, France and the Netherlands but also in the problem countries of Italy (up 1.5 points), Spain (up 0.1 point) and Portugal (up 1.8 points). To top this all ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... equities in Robeco from Rabobank for around $2.5 billion. Robeco is a mid-sized global asset manager based in the Netherlands that manages $244 billion in assets under management. It is present in 15 countries and has a strong European and US client ...