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Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... too) that we're overlooking the region whose continued weakness the Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) only yesterday warned "could evolve into stagnation with negative implications for the global economy" and whose 2013 economic ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
Australian stocks have hit a six-week low after the OECD downgraded Australian and world economic growth forecasts, causing mining stocks to tumble. The downbeat prediction from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development also hit US ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... April. Australians will be happy! No delete that, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Better Life Index, we are already the happiest industrial country in the world...for the third year running at that! The ...

Fidelity ups risk on global recovery hopes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... asset allocation director believes key economic indicators from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are beginning to turn upwards. These indicators are intended to give early signals of the turning points in economic activity ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... Australian. Lucky 'ey? The way these three economies are going, I'm getting the best of three worlds. Australia's the envy of the OECD. China only recently became the second largest economy in the world (soon the first?) and now recent growth stats showed ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Australia's super funds recorded the third best returns net of inflation in the OECD despite having the highest weighting to equities, reveals new research from the OECD. Denmark was the top performing pension fund nation during calendar year 2011 earning ...

Star alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... Currently, you can buy US$1.0425 greenbacks with a dollar-A buck. CIBC didn't say how much the A$ is overvalued by but the OECD reckons that as at 20 September (US$1.0435 is to A$1), our currency was 39% overvalued. For Goldman Sachs Asset Management ...

Medcraft calls for international super benchmarking

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... at," Medcraft said. One variation cited was the relative weight of fixed income in portfolios, with most managers in other OECD nations allocating more to fixed income and less to equities. Medcraft said this kind of data provided on statements would ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... part of its highly structured investment process. The fund also stressed that none of its investments contravened existing OECD treaties.

Hastings wins UK infra mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... initial $1.1bn investment. The mandate is to source and manage core infrastructure investments in the United Kingdom and select OECD countries over the long term. Hastings said that the RBS Group Pension Fund, one of the UK's largest pension schemes ...