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Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... on alternative investments in response to declining asset returns according to an annual report from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). Pension funds in the UK and US are reported to be driving the shift with the latter's disposal of equities ...

Market set for a steady start

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... the cash-short country facing a June 30 deadline to repay 1.5 billion euros ($A2.19 billion) to the International Monetary Fund. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets were mixed as the EU warned Greece to accept a debt deal with its international creditors ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... creditors over unlocking vital bailout cash for Athens was drawing "dangerously close". That came as International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said progress in negotiations with Greece required "adults in the room" in an apparent swipe at Greek ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... players. LONDON - Europe's main markets have rebounded slightly despite Athens and its European Union-International Monetary Fund creditors remaining locked in a stand-off over a deal to save Greece from a possible default. The CAC 40 in Paris ended ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... Greece. Friday is the deadline for Greece to repay more than 300 million euros ($A431 million) to the International Monetary Fund. David Levy, portfolio manager at Kenjol Capital Management, said investors are also awaiting key economic data later in ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... $US1.0910 from $US1.0991 late in New York on Friday. Greece is up against a deadline on Friday to pay the International Monetary Fund 300 million euros ($A431.47 million) - with fears that it does not have the funds and will default, possibly setting ...

Market set for a fairly flat open

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... a meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations in Germany. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde, who was attending the G7 meeting, reportedly warned of the potential for a Greek exit of the 19-nation ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... consolation". Analysts said the declines were primarily rooted in concerns over rising tension between Greece and its international creditors to seeking a deal to free up 7.2 billion euros ($A10.1 billion) in frozen bailout funds that Athens desperately ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... from creditors to free up the money, which Greece needs to finance a series of debt repayments to the International Monetary Fund. "Today's fall was above all due to the situation in Greece, which may not be able to honour its payments to the IMF, and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... crises, firms and households are very hesitant to take on economic risk," he said in a speech at an International Monetary Fund forum. "For this reason quite some time is needed before we can declare success, and our monetary policy stimulus will stay ...