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Global investors call for action on climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
Some of the world's largest institutional investors have told governments they are ready to play their part in the transition to a low carbon economy, but they need governments to help them. A group of 348 institutional investors worth more than US$24 ...

Retirees could benefit from a vibrant annuities market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... Retirement Income Working Group stressed the need to develop a "vibrant annuity market", in line with much of the rest of the world. "It's very difficult for retirees to determine how much they can spend in retirement, so perhaps they shouldn't be trying ...

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... Security Fund of China. "We are willing to strengthen exchange and cooperation with pension fund colleagues all over the world," Yu said, highlighting government strategy, improvement in system structure, law and regulation around fund development and ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... down over the same period. The unemployment rate rose to 20.9% in November, up from 18.2% in the previous month. How in the world an economy grow - any economy - when one-fifth (and rising) of the working population are without employment? And all the ...

Enough of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
There's a certain kind of hush all over the world overnight as financial markets turned their attention back to the Greeks and their seemingly never-ending negotiations with their benefactors - the IMF, the EU, the ECB... and private creditors. Ahhh ...

Aust fund managers passport to Japan

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... is important that we have domestic structures in Australia that allows our fund managers to do what everybody else in the world can do without the additional risks." Johnson also said a funds passport would provide the good conditions for fund managers ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... to impact markets like this but US or European pension might be, he said. Regardless of the reason for excessively high world oil prices, the political reaction is taking on its own momentum. Saudi Arabia, the world's second largest producer of oil behind ...
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