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NZ Super Fund sells private equity investments

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... Superannuation Fund has sold its investments in three offshore private equity funds. The investments were in Hellman & Friedman VII, JMI Equity Fund VII, and H.I.G Bayside Loan Opportunities Fund II. NZ Super Fund head of investments Fiona Mackenzie ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... have a greater sense of job security and income permanence. A theory developed by Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman known as "Permanent Income Hypothesis". Similarly, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.0% from a downwardly revised ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... difference. This plays very well in accord with the "permanent income hypothesis" formulated by Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman. More full-time jobs brings about expectations of more permanent income that, in turn, encourages spending (but pretty ...

Credit to escape impending bond rout

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... rates by holding bonds with higher yields, according to UBS Wealth Management global chief investment officer Alexander Friedman. With interest rates at record lows across virtually all of world's major economic powers, the only direction for interest ...

Fear not the fugly jobs report

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... been an effective weapon against deflation." Option 8. "A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money." It's quite a long (but very informative) piece and I have run out of writing space. Read ...

PE group adopts ESG

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
... Global Management LLC, Bain Capital Partners, the Blackstone Group, the Carlyle Group, Apax Partners and Hellman and Friedman LLC. James Gifford, PRI executive director, said the group started talking to the private equity sector about adopting environmental ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... this year. And this is what matters most based on what we economists refer to as the permanent income hypothesis. Milton Friedman developed this hypothesis back in 1957, arguing that consumption is based on what people consider as their normal income ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... their interests, local government councils trying to maximise their interests and so on. When the crunch came, Milton Friedman's monetarists approach was applied. In a capsule, Friedman argued that raising the money supply could increase employment and ...

Neuberger Berman pledges money guarantee

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... asset management business was recently sold for $2.7 billion to private equity giants Bain Capital Partners and Hellman & Friedman.