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Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... capitalization initiatives, totaling US$2.3 trillion, were announced by Germany, France, Britain, Spain, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal. In addition, the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Swiss central ...

Fortis bank $19.5bn bail-out 'stabilises' FIA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... The fate of Fortis took a sharp turn for the better this morning (Sydney time) after the governments of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg knotted out a $19.5 billion (11.2 billion Euro) rescue package to save the bank from following the collapse ...

UBS taps into Dutch wealth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... net wealth manager, VermogensGroep are joining forces to create one of the largest wealth management firms in the Netherlands. VermogensGroep's core business includes investment management, monitoring and reporting services to predominantly high net ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... strategic option may however be combining some of the aspects of DB and accumulation fund structures. SSC said the Netherlands remains one of the few markets that has adapted DB to these new conditions in a sustainable fashion by passing more risks from ...

FinLit goes global

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... Aflatoun global Campaign for Child Social and Financial Education was launched in Amsterdam by Princess Maxima from the Netherlands, Tom Miller who is executive director of Plan International, Yanghee Lee who is chair of the UN Convention of the Rights ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... Dutch Disease, a term developed by The Economist magazine "to describe the decline of the manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of natural gas in the 1960s." "The hypothesis is that an increase in revenues from natural resources ...

Biometrics to curb ID theft

... services group LogicaCMG, surveyed 3,500 respondents across Europe namely in France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Sweden. Among the findings were that 83 per cent were willing to provide fingerprints while 66 per ...

Economic round-up: A greener shade of dirty

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
... But China's 2006 CO2 emissions have topped those of the US by 8 per cent, according to preliminary estimates by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP). In 2006 China's CO2 emissions from fossil fuels increased by 9 per cent whereas US ...

Lower foreign withholding tax will boost Australia: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... to place money in Australia. "The withholding tax rate in Japan is 7 per cent, in Singapore 10 per cent, and in the Netherlands 15 per cent," said Robin Speed, director at Speed and Stracey Lawyers. The signals this is sending abroad is hampering Australia's ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... fuelling the overseas markets involves the possibility that British bank Barclays Plc and others might take over the Netherlands' largest bank, ABN AMRO. Today, a Telstra briefing is held from China on SouFun Holdings, while Bridgestone Australia will ...