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Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Templeton Investments (19.7%), Perpetual (17.6%) and Vanguard Investments (14%) all reported double digit annual growth rates. Gross Inflows fell by 29.3% to $45.3bn during the March 2014 quarter nevertheless year on year they were still up by 17.5%. ...

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

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... targets. From September all EU countries will be required to add illegal black market activity to their official measures of gross domestic product (GDP). The new rules are aimed at bringing into line the way member countries measure economic output ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... charge in the millionaire stakes were the economic powerhouses of the US, China and Japan (the three largest economies by gross GDP respectively). Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ahead of Australia in descending ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... economy's long-term trend of around 3.25 per cent. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said initial market reaction to the GDP (gross domestic product) figures was positive but then tapered off. "It (the headline GDP figure) is a good read but there are ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... 10 points higher at 5,492. In economic news on Wednesday, the bureau of statistics releases national accounts, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. The bureau also releases overseas arrivals and departures numbers for April. The Australian ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... "There's just general weakness based on the US lead and perhaps the federal budget, which will be an overall negative for gross domestic production growth moving forward." A rise in commodity prices overnight helped buffer some mining stocks, he said. ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... doing relatively well" and added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of GDP and unemployment is 5.8%. "You look around you here and it ...

BNP Paribas signs up to TARGET 2

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
... of the TARGET 2 Securities (TS2) settlement program. The TARGET 2 - which stands for Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross settlement express transfer system - is an initiative that provides a single platform for securities settlement in central bank ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... 0.20 per cent to 9,603.23 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.23 per cent to 4,487.39. The US Commerce Department said gross domestic product (GDP) rose just 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, well below the 1.0 per cent rise analysts expected. The ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... deficit soaring to A¥1.446 trillion. In so much as net exports - exports minus imports - figures in the calculation of gross domestic product (GDP), this is a negative for overall economic growth. Similarly, while it appears that the Japanese government ...