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Pension funds loading up on alternatives: BIS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... patterns globally, the report said weaker commodity prices had not yet dented financial booms in the likes of Australia, Canada and Norway, "which experienced strong credit and property price growth over the past four quarters." On the topic of monetary ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... number of HNW in a list that also includes the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Canada and Italy. Ultra-HNW population in APAC grew by 14.3% and reached a total of 34,000 individuals. "Asia-Pacific led the growth ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... commented: "The timing of the fall in oil prices has been particularly challenging for state governments in North America and Canada; with reduced revenues from oil producers having driven down state taxation income at the same time as state expenses ...

Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... investors, HSBC group chief executive Stuart Gulliver listed Australia among the group's growth focus areas, along with Canada, Egypt, India and Taiwan. Other growth areas for HSBC will be China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE and ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... adjustment. First quarter real GDP growth: Australia: 3.6% US: -0.8% Japan: 2.4% Germany: 1.2% UK: 1.2% France: 2.4% Italy: 1.2% Canada: -0.6% If Australia's economy was able to expand at this rate in the first quarter when the G7 (and China) all slowed ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... real concerns about stocks." Dow member GE gained 0.3 per cent as it announced the sale of a pair of finance assets to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $US12 billion ($A15.59 billion). Southwest Airlines tumbled 4.2 per cent as it reported ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... Canadian and Swiss GDP growth (released after the OECD report) rode the same slow (reversing?) train to the first quarter. Canada's economy contracted by 0.1% in Q1 from plus 0.6% in Q4 last year; Switzerland's registered minus 0.2% from 0.5% in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... exit. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has invited his counterparts and their central bank chiefs from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, for the gathering that kicks off later on Wednesday. Meantime, markets were ...

Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... ready as they need to be to mitigate financial cyber fraud risk for the new, faster payments environment. "When the UK, Canada and other countries went through a similar process, there was a spike in digital banking fraud attacks such as account takeover ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... of structuring finances to not be affected by changes in the rules." Michayluk noted that other taxation methods used in Canada and the United states do not tax assets contributed to or within retirement pools. Instead, they apply tax when the funds ...