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Dutch pension tackles longevity risk and ageing population

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The Dutch pension system will soon introduce a new pension contract that would tackle the dual challenges of longevity risk and an ageing population. The Netherlands has a mandatory pension system based on generous defined benefits but an ageing population ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and everything is fine except... it's not fine enough. Wall Street was so sure heading into the February US non-farm payrolls report that the data will confirm improving labour market conditions in America. All the ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
... opening of trading in the United States the private payrolls firm ADP reported a 15 per cent increase in job creation from January -- to 217,000 jobs -- much better than the hiring slowdown expected by economists. The US jobs figure failed to pull European ...

Three and a half men

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
Wall Street welcomed March with a big drop with the three major indices down about 1.5 per cent on the day. Oh boy, here we go again. News services were all over the place blaming the renewed spike in crude. Oil spiked - again! - because of reports ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... home sales fell 2.8 per cent following a 3.2 per cent drop in December - and personal spending rose by 0.2 per cent in January - half expectations for a 0.4 per cent gain and the smallest increase since June last year. I'll buy what you're selling. But ...

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has clarified its definition of liquid assets that the banking industry must hold from 2015. In the wake of the global financial crisis, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) ...

HESTA posts bumper January returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
HESTA has reported a stellar monthly investment return for January with all 11 of its options returning positive results. The stand-out performer for the leading health and community services sector fund was International Shares with a 3 per cent gain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
The Australian market has received positive leads from diverse markets in offshore trading overnight, with all key securities indices higher, as well as precious and industrial metals and oil. On the ASX 24 at 0828 AEDT, the March share price index ...

Macq High Conviction predicts 2012 rally

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
The fund manager of a top performing high conviction fund predicts the ASX200 is unlikely to hit the 6,000 mark this year - but forecasts a return to the market's former levels soon after. Mark Harrison, fund manager of the Macquarie High Conviction ...