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UBS to cut up to 10 000 jobs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... jobs after announcing a $AUD 2.25 billion net profit loss on Tuesday. As part of a cost-cutting following the result, Switzerland's biggest bank said that it "is likely to have a headcount of around 54 000" by 2015, down from its current 64 000 employees ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... Mercer Global Pension Index has shown that Australia has come in third place out of 18 countries, beating the likes of Switzerland, Canada and the UK. The index which covers over half of the world's population has found that Australia's retirement savings ...

Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... changes have reduced Australia's average wealth (US$ 354,986) by 11%; however average wealth remains second only to Switzerland (US$468,186) Over the past year, the number of dollar millionaires in Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden has diminished ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... are that Aussieland will overtake Spain as the 12th largest world economy this quarter and behind only Norway and Switzerland in terms of per capita GDP), employment, fiscal balance, scope for more monetary policy accommodation... you name it - "We're ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... AAA-rated bonds. There's only a handful - seven - of them now: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. Though Germany's still AAA, it's now on a negative outlook.

BlackRock to buy private equity business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... investment officer for Swiss Re. The purchase expands BlackRock's European and Asian business and establishes a presence in Switzerland with about $15bn in client commitments, according to the firm. In a separate statement Swiss Re said it would continue ...

Apostle partners with Dundas Global

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... in the 1980's would come from Finland or that the two leaders in artificial hearing would come from Australia and Switzerland. "We are globalists so that we can choose from the best companies, wherever they are. It just makes investment sense - no matter ...

HSBC launches new retail equity product

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... International Equity Investment gives exposure to the Australian equity index (S&P/ASX 200) in addition to indices in Switzerland (SMI), Singapore (MSCI Singapore Free) and Taiwan (TAIEX). "The four indices to underline the product are rated overweight ...

HK tops US as most advanced financial economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... access to those markets. The top 10 nations are Hong Kong SAR, the US, UK, Singapore, Canada, the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland and Norway. France is ranked 12th and Germany 15th.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2011
... 2,386.86. In a surprise move on Wednesday the central banks of the United States, the eurozone, Britain, Japan, Canada and Switzerland said they would cut the cost of providing dollars to banks. However, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa warned ...