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Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... among the group of countries with both strong practices and strong rules. Australia's peers in this group were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the US and UK. The 10 governance factors Calvert looked at included ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... for retirement security comprised, in order, Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, Denmark and Germany. This year, the GRI shows the impact of the pandemic on current and future retirees with interest rates falling ...

Chief economist update: Comeback COVID

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... all had increases in infections of more than 70% during the week of 10-16 August vs the prior week. In northern Europe, Denmark, Switzerland and Norway have all had spikes of between 46.9% and 59.4%." Better lock your door. "In response, containment ...

Chief economist update: The ECB's PEPP economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... stimulus package - more than the expected €80-€100 billion. Hopefully, it would change dissenter nations' - Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden - stance against the European Commission's recent proposal for a €750 billion recovery ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone contraction heads from mild to severe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... fund recovery spending." All well and good, every little bit helps. However, fiscally responsible members -- Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden - are against the idea of paying for the debts of their more profligate neighbours. Moreover, just ...

COVID-19 will bite into credit ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... by the three credit rating agencies - Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch Ratings - namely: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, and Switzerland. Good call! Latest available information on ...

Oil tanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
Wouldn't it be nice to buy a house in Denmark was what I thought when I read the news that Jyske Bank - the country's third-largest bank - announced in August last year that it would pay home borrowers 0.5% per annum to take out a mortgage. Sweet! And ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... "Europe has been the epicentre of negative rates policy since the European Central Bank took rates below zero in 2015. Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland followed the ECB with negative rates policies to help stem excessive currency appreciation of their ...

Chief economist update: Let's talk about debt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... The OECD's stats put Australia's household debt to net disposable income at 216.4% - the fourth largest behind Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway. In contrasts, Australia's government debt to GDP, at 40.7%, is among the lowest in the G20. ...

Australia climbs up Mercer global pension index

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... conjunction with the Monash Centre for Financial Studies - showed Australia lacks when compared to the Netherlands and Denmark, the nation's registering first and second in the index, with Australia scoring a B+, thanks to an overall score of 75.3. For ...