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Australia a top destination for international investment: QIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2024
... governance. The results were favourable for Australia which currently ranks 6 th, behind Norway, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, and Denmark. "This places us well ahead of many of our advanced economy peers who are our most likely competitors for foreign ...

Australians rank seventh globally for retirement confidence

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024
... Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. However, it beat out the likes of Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, and New Zealand. Despite a sound retirement security environment, the study showed that up to 40% of Australians ...

Gender gap to close in 134 years: World Economic Forum

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
... progress, significant disparities remained. The top 10 nations for gender parity were: Iceland Finland Norway New Zealand Sweden Nicaragua Germany Namibia Ireland Spain Eastern Asia and Pacific ranked fourth for gender equality with a score of 69.2%. ...

NZ Super Fund secures stake in Euroclear

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
... Further, it operates the national Central Securities Depositories in Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Euroclear Bank is the provider of settlement and related securities services for cross-border transactions ...

Pension fund ousts chief over US bank losses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
The chief executive of Sweden's Alecta was let go by the fund as it looks to recover from large losses resulting from investments in Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First Republic Bank. Overnight, Magnus Billing was axed as chief executive with ...

Gender balance is smart economics: CEW

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2023
... billion per year to female earnings while raising workforce participation by women from the current 73% to 85% (on par with Sweden, the highest labour force participation rate in the world) could boost GDP by as much as $186 billion per year, based on ...

Maple-Brown Abbott selects UK, Europe distribution partner

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2023
... Investment (HPI). HPI, a capital raising and strategic consultancy firm, will distribute the UCITS funds in locations including, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and France. Maple-Brown Abbott chief executive and managing director Sophia Rahmani ...

Australia among top 10 financially inclusive markets: Research

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2022
... schemes, and employer pay initiatives. Singapore was rated the world's most financially inclusive market, alongside the US, Sweden, Hong Kong, and Finland. Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa ranked towards the lower end when it came to financial inclusion ...

Global dividend income growth to continue: Plato

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... comparing 2021 to 2020. North America & Japan were relatively flat, with substantial increases in European countries including Sweden (+193%), Italy (+115%) and the UK (+45%). "What we saw in 2021 was almost a perfect reversal from 2020 when large dividend ...

Macquarie AM acquires logistics centre

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021
... sector for 15 years. It currently manages 56 properties in Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. In July, MAM established a build-to-rent platform in the UK called Goodstone Livin g after seeing the ...
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