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Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... happens here these days," Mr Peacock said. Europe's main stock markets also dropped with workers across indebted eurozone nations striking in protest against their governments' deep austerity programs. London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies dropped ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... The Australian market looks set to open lower following the US and Europe's leads as workers across indebted eurozone nations protest against their governments' deep austerity programs. At 0631 AEDT on Thursday, the December share price index futures ...

Don't ignore China banks: Macquarie

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... owned, he said. "It's a market in which China has complete dominance. And it's not related to monetary policy in western nations, which is something people tend to ignore," said Wang. Of course, China's economy is affected by decisions offshore, but ...

Australia ranks third in Global Pensions

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... increasing from 75.0 in 2011 to 75.7 in 2012. Dr David Knox, senior partner at Mercer and author of the report said the nations gains in the overall index value have primarily resulted from an increase in the level of pension fund assets and a rise in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... also on a meeting which started later in the day of the finance ministers of the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations, which is taking place in Tokyo. Tokyo slipped 0.58 per cent, or 49.45 points, to 8,546.78, with the territorial spat between ...

Woe R'Us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2012
... better than all the rest". It gives meaning to the first phrase of the fourth stanza of our national anthem: "While other nations of the globe Behold us from afar, We'll rise to high renown and shine Like our glorious southern star; We've risen to "high ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... returned 10% for a very low amount of risk. Mathew McCrum, joint head of investments at Omega said that lowly indebted nations are currently doing well and that safe government bonds are doing even better. He noted that Australians have been underinvested ...

Fix philanthropy from ground up: FYA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... said that while FYA recognises there is an issue with levels of philanthropy in Australia compared with other developed nations, the program has been driven by at the macro-policy level on the basis of extending programs designed to help younger generations ...

Vanguard to publish portfolio holdings

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... transparency for investors and ensure they have the information they need to make well informed investment decisions". Of the 22 nations on the MSCI World Index surveyed in a 2011 Morningstar Global Investors Report, Australia and New Zealand were the ...

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... fourth on 2.3%. The OECD Pension Markets in Focus report also noted that these top five performers are among the smallest nations by population in the OECD. Netherland and Iceland were also found to have pension systems that relative to their GDPs are ...