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Senior female execs needed: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... 17.5%, figures for 2013 put Australia ahead of the global average of 12.7% of women in boards, but behind Norway (39.7%), Germany (23%) and New Zealand (19.6%). 'Achieving gender diversity in Australia: the ugly, the bad and the good' found that the ...

No inflation but no growth either: Janus Capital

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... who chairs Janus Capital's investment committee, explained that negative real interest rates in Denmark, Switzerland and Germany are a clear sign that we live in unusual times and investors need to rethink their approach to fixed income markets. "Economists ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... aggregate demand. A younger workforce is forming households, buying consumer goods, raising children and paying taxes. Both Germany and Japan are expected to see the greatest declines in their working-age populations. According to one study (Have Analytics) ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... down 1.21 per cent to 11,723,58 points on Thursday as the market brushed off data showing that consumer confidence in Germany is at its highest since late 2001. The CAC 40 in Paris ended 0.62 per cent lower at 5,178.91 after a key survey showed growth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... level in six weeks and well above estimates, according to Labor Department data. Equity markets in Britain, France and Germany fell sharply on concerns about slow progress in bailout negotiations between Greece and international creditors. International ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... of 2014..." "Australia's increase will also be more than 10 times the 3 per cent rise expected in the United States... Germany's debt-to-GDP will fall 25 per cent to 37.1 per cent." It couldn't get any gloomier than this, could it? But by George, if ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... commodities and commodity exporting countries and China's main trading partners - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US, Australia, Germany. Not so according to the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department division chief, Steven Bartnett, who predicts China's economy ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... outlook of these channels in the rest of the continent. Roughly half of asset managers said their market share will grow in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. The rest said market share will stay roughly the same and only a tiny minority think ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... Partners. Based on a survey of 97 institutional investors across 22 countries - including Australia, Japan, Belgium, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UK - the research showed that 75% of respondents incorporated ESG issues into their ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... expect employment prospects to improve. This means that "we're out-gloomed only by Brazil (14%), Switzerland (13%) and Germany (12%)," CFA Society of Sydney president Anthony Serhan said. The cheerier end of the spectrum shows that major developing economies ...