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CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... diversified across five sectors (water, gas, electricity, broadcasting towers and transportation) and six countries (UK, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Spain). The Fund's investor base is made up of 49 institutional investors of whom the majority ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark, which scored 82.4%. This represents a 2% rise from 2013, and puts Australia ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Slovenia and Spain; 2%-3% for Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France; 3%-4% for Austria, Netherlands and the UK and 4%-5% Finland and Sweden.

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... from the previous one, the French economy produced zero growth while that of Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Greece and Finland are back with a minus sign in front. A central banker's work is never done, eh?

Flip flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... will be ejected 23.2% The Eurozone will shrink to a core of creditor nations (Germany, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Finland) 34.2% Germany will leave the Eurozone 4.9% Other ` 2.4% Mercer Hammond captured the overriding mood that has prevailed in ...

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 ...