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A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Australian super funds, world's third best

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... fund systems that have a heavy tilting to bonds and cash. Behind Australia's 50% equities weighting are the US with 48%, Finland with 41%, Chile with 40% and Belgium with 35%. Hong Kong pension assets are 55% weighted to equities but Hong Kong is not ...

Apostle partners with Dundas Global

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... McFarlane told Financial Standard. "Who could have predicted that the leading mobile company in the 1980's would come from Finland or that the two leaders in artificial hearing would come from Australia and Switzerland. "We are globalists so that we ...

Insult me, insult you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... suspicion that Greece's single currency brethrens now prefer Greece to die. Et tu Brutus? According to Reuters, "Germany, Finland and the Netherlands are the countries pushing to delay the package... with Germany the most adamant and suggesting that ...

Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... ruins. A Financial Times report affirms my musing. According to FT, "Hardline officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Finland are increasingly urging a Greek default." Perhaps they've been emboldened by the financial markets' seemingly nonchalant reaction ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... Austria. Both countries lost their triple-A and are now rated AA+ -- the same as America. Only Germany, The Netherlands, Finland and Luxembourg retained the precious AAA rating. But for how long, I wonder? Now the heat is on. Europe must do something ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... escalating problems in Europe. Others, including France's Banque Federative du Credit Mutuel Denmark's Danske Bank and Finland's OP Pohjola Group also took the hit. Meanwhile, a surge in Italy's borrowing costs and comments from policy makers that quashed ...

PIGS!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... S&P warned that of the 15 Eurozone members, six countries - Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Finland - face a one-notch downgrade while the remaining nine are staring at a two-step markdown. And for the final oh-em-gee moment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... Standard & Poor's was poised to announce later on Monday that its was putting Germany, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Luxembourg on "creditwatch negative" due to the deepening eurozone public debt crisis, the Financial Times reported. ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... that's good. The Continent's performance was great! Germany's Dax index rallied by 5.3%, France's CAC-40 index by 5.74%, Finland's OMX Helsinki index by 5.1% and Italy's MIB by 4.9%. For greater emphasis, how about the 6.2% jump in Sweden's OMX Stockholm ...