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Calls to mandate funds to offer social impact option

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... contributions put into projects that have a positive social impact but also a proven record of financial return. The program in France started slowly but has snowballed in recent years. From $700 million invested into projects in 2008, French superannuation ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... French and German bankers and made a deal. The deal was very simple: Germany would be allowed to get reindustrialised and France was given the opportunity to administer the whole thing." This is why Vaoufakis argued that "The EU was a cartel. Its first ...

Monopolies offer best infrastructure returns: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... roads on the eastern seaboard of Australia. Further afield there is Atlantia and VINCI that operate toll roads in Italy and France, respectively. There's also Fraport, which operates Frankfurt airport. Of those stocks, Robertson typically holds around ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... mobile payments. In particular, 2014 cashless payment volumes in China are predicted to surpass those in Germany, the UK, France, and South Korea. The report says hidden payments, or payments processed through non-bank systems, are now estimated to be ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... on a plane." To capitalise on that trend BlackRock is looking at European air traffic manufacturers, particularly one in France "that has roughly nine years' worth of back orders on their books." Estes said the fund was also overweight in healthcare ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... "polite" to the big members of the Eurozone too. Germany's deficit reached 4% of GDP and debt 63.9% in 2003; the same year, France's deficit was 4.1% and debt grew to 62.9%; Italy's deficit was at 3.5% and debt 105.7%. Well... they made their bed. Everybody's ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... countries for the number of HNW in a list that also includes the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Canada and Italy. Ultra-HNW population in APAC grew by 14.3% and reached a total of 34,000 individuals. "Asia-Pacific ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... is not expected to lift interest rates on Wednesday, Chair Janet Yellen could signal a move is near. Equity markets in France and Germany rebounded despite worries over a Greek debt default in the absence of a deal between Athens and international creditors. ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... 2016. Less than half of funds in Australia choose to provide any portfolio disclosure at all. The next worst nation is France where nearly 60% provide some data. In saying that, roughly a third of Australian funds produce the data monthly, which is the ...

Saxo launches trading platform for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... margin requirements. The launch of the trading platform in Australia follows the launch of the tool to trading clients in France earlier this month. SaxoTraderGO is already available to clients in Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin ...