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Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... calling for a double dip might get it right. But nothing could be further from the truth. Australia's still the Lucky Country, thank you very much. Just last week, the ABS reported that employment rose by 54,600 in November - nearly double the previous ...

Aberdeen mounts case for active fixed income investing

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
While the active versus passive debate usually centers around stocks, one of the country's largest fixed interest managers is keen to have the same argument around bonds. In a new paper, Abedeen's head of Australian Fixed Income, Victor Rodriguez, argues ...

Mercer outlines top trends for 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... reliance on the equity risk premium and/or home bias. "We believe that diversifying away from developed markets and home country in a careful way can enhance performance potential and improve the efficiency of portfolios," Mercer said. Re-regulation ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
The New Zealand Retirement Commissioner has recommended an increase in the country's retirement age to 67 but the proposal has been rejected by Prime Minister John Key. The recommendation was made in the three-yearly Retirement Income Policy Review ...

Temasek boosts Singapore SMEs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... Temasek Holdings is participating in Singapore's multi-billion co-investment program with local SMEs, to help grow the country's small business sector. Temasek said in a statement last week that it would take part in a Singapore-government developed ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... flows into their bond market. It's been so good for the Germans that its finance ministry even boasted last night that the country's deficit could decline to the European Union's 3 per cent of GDP limit next year. So no "extraordinary" juice... at least ...

Tower wins First State Super, ousts MetLife

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... Super's mandate follows another large win last September for Tower - a $600 million contract with AustralianSuper, the country's largest industry fund. Tower recently reported a 24 per cent profit growth this year to $92.3 million, driven by strong performance ...

Hungary nationalises private pensions

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... Hungarian government has effectively nationalised the private pensions of its citizens in an effort to plug holes in the country's finances. Confirming savers and foreign investors worst fears, the national economy minister, Gyorgy Matolcsy announced ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... will have to do a Fed and expand monetary policy - the alternative is to break the Eurozone apart and send its member country their separate ways. European pride dictates that this is an unpalatable alternative. So print money it will. And when they ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... Spain doesn't have to rely on the kindness of strangers... at least not much, to fund its deficit -- about half of the country's debt is held by domestic investors. This compares with Ireland where foreigners finance 85 per cent of its debt or Portugal ...