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Do super funds hold AAA rating key?

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2016
... - this is part of the digital economy," Garnaut said. "The absolute level of savings in China is as large as the United States and Europe put together and as China's weight in the world economy has increased, global savings have increased. The balance ...

A mining renaissance courtesy of President Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
... all - or nearly most of us - stumped, including Trump. "Donald Trump never actually wanted to be President of the United States", according to documentary filmmaker and author Michael Moore. In hindsight, this helps explain his outrageous sexist and ...

Foreign instos keen on Aussie real estate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2016
... two-year period investment was led by Chinese institutions, totalling US$9.5 billion across 221 properties. Both the United States ($7.8bn) and Singapore ($6.6bn) followed, acquiring 184 and 121 properties respectively. The figures came from the latest ...

Trump and Brexit comes back to haunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016
... And then, a month and a bit later (16 June), Trump announced that his ambition to become the next President of the United States. I still can recall the giggles, the rolling of the eyes, the hilarious tweets that followed whenever "Trump" and "US President" ...

CBA partners to capitalise on Chinese tourism

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... payments provider, and its 450 million active users, is truly exciting," Rosmarin said. Last year China overtook the United States as the world's largest market in mobile payments with a transaction volume totaling US$235 billion, and is expected to ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... back of higher "oil-related" commodity prices, and rising wage costs. Japan Nikkei manufacturing PMI As with the United States and the Eurozone, Japan's flash manufacturing PMI reading also improved in October, rising to 51.7 from 50.4 in September with ...

Low return world a boon for VC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... portfolio is invested in health services such as healthcare packaging and a chain of renal dialysis businesses in the United States. QIC isn't alone here. The firm's investments are merely symptomatic of a wider trend across the industry. Industry superannuation ...

NZ Super Fund partners in US renewables

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... the capability that the team offers, will help us access this sector and the shifting trend to clean energy in the United States." Infratil chief executive Marko Bogoievski added: "The Longroad opportunity emerged from an origination effort focused on ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... hold off another year or so before making its next move. We can also expect to see some modest fiscal easing in the United States next year, though this is dependent on the outcome of the election, with Donald Trump proposing a much more significant ...

Advice clients need greater clarity on fees: survey

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... (76%). The report findings are the result of an online survey undertaken by State Street and a2bplanning in the United States in August 2014 which was completed by a representative sample of 300 financial advisers and 300 individual investors across ...