Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 411 - 420 of 596 results for "ABE"

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... Reinhart and Rogoff infamy. There's sun shining ever so brightly in the Land of the Rising Sun with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government and his 'Abenomics' getting a thumbs up from Japanese voters. His ruling coalition won control in both chambers ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... economic activity. Meanwhile, the Tokyo stock market was lifted by a big parliamentary election win for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 0.11 per cent to end at 6,623.17 points, while Frankfurt's ...

Super fund mergers pose capacity problem

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
Consolidation within the superannuation industry and the subsequent creation of mega funds is forcing chief investment officers to rethink their strategies, threatening to kill off institutional access to nimble boutique managers. Smaller funds are ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Investors, particularly those in or approaching retirement, should be wary of ignoring fixed income and other income producing assets in the 'great rotation' out of cash and into equities, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) executive ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... points, to 12,904.02, extending an almost four per cent decline on Wednesday due to disappointment at Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's latest plan to boost the economy. Hong Kong lost 1.05 per cent, or 230.81 points, to close at 21,838.43, while Shanghai ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
The dramatic lift in confidence arising from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's aggressive stimulus measures has created opportunities for investment to flow between Australia and Japan in both directions, according to Nikko Asset Management chairman ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... gained about 60 per cent over the past six months under the pro-spending, pro-growth policies of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, but tumbled 7.3 per cent on Thursday. The turbulence persisted for the next two sessions, with stocks driven down by ...

MoneySmart list of unlicensed companies approaches 700

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
The number of unlicensed companies listed on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)'s online financial literacy website, MoneySmart, has grown to 696. China Environment Group Limited (CEG), based in the British Virgin Islands, has ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

Top-down approach wins in post-GFC world: Hexavest

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... preferring to take positions in under-represented markets. The strategies have profited heavily from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pledge of monetary support to the economy, for instance. However, Brunelle says the team is now taking money off ...