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Abbott eyes Canadian pension money

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has encouraged Canadian pension funds to invest in Australian infrastructure. Speaking alongside Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa, Abbott said he wanted to see more Canadian investment in Australia. "I know ...

Timely market surge for a tough budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... through cyberspace, here's the list of headlines from Bloomberg: S&P 500, Dow Climb to Records on Tech Rally; Copper Gains. Canadian Stocks Rebound From Worst Week Since June. German Stocks Rise to 11-Week High; Sky Deutschland Gains. U.K. Stocks Climb ...

Big obstacles for funds going it alone on PE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... obstacles, notably in their ability to hire, govern, and retain top talent," the report said. The authors cite efforts by Canadian pension funds that "had to establish professionalism in their management and governance, including the board". Other obstacles ...

TAL appoints chief risk officer

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014

Professor proposes cheap longevity insurance design

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
A Canadian finance professor has come up with a way of making lifetime annuities affordable by designing them so they only pay out if the market does badly. According to Moshe A. Milevsky of York University, Toronto, while lifetime and deferred lifetime ...

International capital requirements could cripple insurers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Canberra, ahead of the G20 Leaders' Summit that will be held in Brisbane in November. GFIA chair and president of the Canadian Health and Life Insurance Association Frank Swedlove told journalists in Sydney that the proposal "does not encourage long ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
My, my... Crimea has just put a new twist in the turn of the Russia/Ukraine saga. Crimea's Parliament voted - unanimously if I may add - to secede from Ukraine and re-join Russia (which it was part of it till 1954). The Crimeans will get their say in ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... preparation of the scheduled G8 Summit in Sochi in June." But let's not stop there, according to The Globe and Mail, "(Canadian) Prime Minister Stephen Harper has warned Russia could be expelled from the G8 if it continues its military intervention in ...

Brookfield shakes up board

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Melbourne's Southern Cross East and West Towers, and Perth's 108 St Georges Terrace. Brookfield Prime Property Fund is part of Canadian firm Brookfield Asset Management. As of July 2013, the fund had almost $200 billion of funds under management.

NZ Super sells forestry stake to iwi group

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... organisations. NZ Super remains the largest stakeholder in the business, with a 38.75% share. Other major stakeholders include Canadian pension fund, Public Sector Pension Investment Board at 30%, and an affiliate of the President and Fellows of Harvard ...