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FEATURE: The infrastructure love story

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... delivering "what will be the world's largest privately funded runway development at Brisbane Airport." The World Economic Forum recently ranked the quality of Australia's infrastructure 20th out of 144 countries. Some of the poorest scores were for the ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... developments." This is the same day that former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers told his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2015 that, "Deflation and secular stagnation are the threats of our time." And this quote published by The Associated ...

Speakers confirmed for Family Office Forum

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... (with a three-year spell in the Prime Minister's office in Paris). He headed the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum and organised Davos. Hong Kong-based Hendale Advisors chief investment officer Henry Lee will also provide an overview of ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". And I had some reinforcements. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize wining economist - declared that QE is "the only stimulus" ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... just gotten reinforcements too - and it's from one of the biggest guns in the field. In an interview at the World Economic Forum in Jordan over the weekend, Joseph Stigliz - yes, him, the Nobel prize wining economist - declared that QE is "the only stimulus" ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... world's biggest hedge fund - told other great mortals (2,600 political, business and financial leaders) at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last 25 January that, "2013 will be a 'game changer' for the economy as investors reallocate money after ...

They will or they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... the data showed." Now you believe that what Wen wants, Wen gets. But let's not stop there. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Tianjin yesterday, PM Wen assured the world that, "Be it monetary or fiscal, we still have ample strength," and "we will ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... notion that the current crisis somehow signals the decline of Europe as a global force. He cited a recent World Economic Forum report that listed seven European countries in their Top 10 list of the world's most competitive economies. "Europe is a strong ...

HK tops US as most advanced financial economy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... administrative region has overtaken the US as the world's most developed financial economy, according to the World Economic Forum's 2011 Financial Development Report, the first time an Asian region has lead the index. Pushing Hong Kong SAR to the lead ...

Asian counterweight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... with money, they better think again. China didn't get to where it is now by being somebody's fool. At the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Dalian, Premier Wen Jiabao said that the world shouldn't rely on China to save the world. Instead, "Countries ...