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Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... Mac index - show that POTUS has reason to cry foul. "The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), which states that currencies should adjust until the price of an identical basket of goods-or in this case, a Big Mac-costs ...

MLC Life Insurance reviews terms and definitions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2019
... period. MLC also upgraded the definition of severe rheumatoid arthritis (SRA) for MLC Insurance Critical Illness Plus and PPP Critical Illness Plus. The definition for SRA was upgraded on 30 June 2017 and at the time MLC advised this definition would ...

AMP Capital expands infrastructure equity team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018
... Royal North Shore Hospital Public Private Partnership project for Plenary Group. AMP Capital acquired a 100% interest in the PPP project from the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2015. AMP Capital global head of infrastructure health, Julie-Anne Mizzi, said ...

AMP Capital adds key social infrastructure asset

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Community Infrastructure Fund. The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) operates as a public-private partnership (PPP) with the Victorian state government for a period of 25 years, with AMP Capital's CommIF purchasing 21% of the asset from Partners ...

AIA announces two-year fee waiver

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
AIA Australia announced it is waiving fees on certain polices that can help improve lapse rates. The life insurer is waiving the policy fee for the first two years of new Priority Protection members. If applicable, it will also waive the AIA Vitality ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... less investor understanding of the region than the broader emerging markets universe. However, with 224 million people, a PPP-adjusted GDP growth rate of 5.1% over the past 15 years and a 50% share of all Latin American trade, both private and public ...

In-house investment bears fruit for AustralianSuper

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
AustralianSuper chief executive Ian Silk has flagged expanding the fund's internal investment team to manage more than half of its rapidly growing asset base. Australia's largest superannuation fund has previously said it is aiming to manage between ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

FIIG expands fixed income research team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities is creating one of Australia's largest sell-side credit research teams with the appointment of two senior researchers. Joining the fixed income team is John Manning, who will take over as director - credit research ...

AustralianSuper, IFM Investors buy Ausgrid in five weeks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... a 50.4% interest in a 99-year lease of Ausgrid. IFM Investors chief executive Brett Himbury said: "This is a new kind of 'PPP' - a true Pension Public Partnership. This Pension Public Partnership makes Australian superannuation money available to build ...