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International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... is 5.8%. "You look around you here and it doesn't feel like a country that is struggling," Donnison said. The Financial Times said that Australia has "one of the lowest levels of debt in the world," even if deficit has increased following the fall in ...

Move the goalpost Mark

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... forecasts to 1.6% (from 1.4% estimated in August) this year and to 2.8% (from 2.5%) in 2014. This, according to the Financial Times, takes UK growth back to its average of "2.8pc seen in the 15 years before the 2008 financial crisis" and "means UK is ...

Macquarie Group tops global alternative investment table

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
... alternative assets with almost $95 billion invested in infrastructure, according to research by Towers Watson and the Financial Times. Total assets managed by the Top 100 alternative investment managers globally reached $3.1 trillion in 2012. A total ...

The Big Benny sings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2013
... on Course to End Asset Buying in 2014" Reuters: "Stocks, bond prices drop as Fed points to reduced bond buying" Financial Times: "Bernanke sees 2014 end for QE3" Wall Street Journal: "Bernanke Sets Stage to End Bond Buys Amid Growth" Now don't get me ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
... reversed. The price action just reinforces how important the FOMC Wednesday will be." Yup. Two days ago (17 June), Financial Times published an article by Robin Harding entitled "Fed likely to signal tapering move is close" which in no less than 625 ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... plans to enter Europe and have put existing operations under review in response to new European regulation, the Financial Times has reported. Their retreat comes in response to the arrival of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive ...

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... gathering for the UK government to follow in Australia's footsteps and merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some councils are ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... with specific skills in understanding the financial and legal needs of same sex couples. A report in FTfm, the Financial Times ' weekly funds management supplement, pointed to figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics which show that typical ...

Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... Dutch FinMin and Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem spilled his brains out in an interview with Reuters and The Financial Times. It's not gonna be a one-off as previously claimed and stressed... it's gonna be the "template" a "blueprint" for all up and ...

Gone in 60 seconds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... but...I looked and I looked and I looked... nothing in the headlines. Not in the Wall Street Journal, Not in the Financial Times. Not on Bloomberg. Not on Reuters. Not in the Australian Financial Review. Hmmm, must be on page 8? It was over in 60 seconds! ...