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Chinalising Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... its latest 5-year bond auction. Falling growth. Ifo cut its growth forecast for Germany. The institution now expects the country's GDP to inched up by only 0.4% next year - down sharply from its earlier prediction for a 2.3% expansion - and this assumes ...

AustralianSuper, AGEST reveal merger plans

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... was a great fit. "AustralianSuper is determined to play a leading role in shaping the future of superannuation in this country in the interests of members. We have a very strong vision and AGEST shares that vision." AGEST sought merger proposals from ...

Round two of Stronger Super revealed

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
... investment options in default funds, as part of the government's Stronger Super reform package, aimed at revaming the country's superannuation system. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) recently called for both the Stronger Super ...

AMP Capital forges Japanese alliance

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... business and capital alliance will give AMP Capital access to around 80% of Japanese institutional investors and 14% of the country's retail and high net worth banking networks who will be able to avail of its products. The deal gives Mitsubishi UFJ ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... downgrade. Just as I keep repeating over and over... and over, warnings like these have a tendency to become self-fulfilling. Country A placed on credit watch, investors don't want to buy country A's debt issuances, its borrowing cost rise making it ...

Post-retirement risk in Australia: IMCA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... when it comes to questions of longevity risk. What happens when you get to the point where people want pay outs?" "For a country of 22 million people, annuity number sales are extraordinarily small. We don't have any longevity insurance to speak of," ...

PJC: Government needs to re-think payday reforms

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Financiers Association of Australia/Industry/Smiles Turner Delegation, told the PJC inquiry. "It cannot be done in this country... the 10 and two per cent is absolutely not viable by any means." The National Financial Services Federation (NFSF) said ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... hold large amounts of European government debt and would have the most to lose in the event of a default by a European country, something investors around the world have been increasingly fearful of. Wednesday's coordinated action by the central banks ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... yields at 7.89% and 10-year yields rose to a new high of 7.56% -- now far beyond the bailout mark of 7.0%. Still in the old country, La Tribune reports of speculation that Standard & Poor's could downgrade the outlook for France's AAA rating, before ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... Tuesday, breaking through the 7.0 per cent warning threshold at a bond sale closely watched by investors worried that the country may need a bailout. ATHENS - Greece's top bank NBG says it has lost 1.346 billion euros ($A1.82 billion) in the first nine ...