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Chief economist update: Oil to slide into 2020

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2019
... International Energy Agency (IEA) predicts increased supply in 2020 "when non-OPEC supply growth, led by the US, Brazil and Norway, accelerates from 1.8 mb/d to 2.2 mb/d, reducing the call on OPEC to 29 mb/d". At the same time, the IEA forecasts global ...

Australia slips in global retirement ranks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2019
... are empowered to take control of their own financial future." Iceland came first in the rankings followed by Switzerland, Norway and Ireland with New Zealand in fifth place. Sweden, Denmark, Canada and Luxembourg round out the top 10. The United Kingdom ...

Chief economist update: Fed has Trump's trade war number

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
... calculations." USD 200 billion? That's about US$10 billion short of New Zealand's entire economy. US$850 billion buys you Norway and Hong Kong plus loose change. The latest Fed research puts numbers in Financial Standard 's claim that it's ...

Pension fund giant cuts BHP

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... $106 billion international pension fund has excluded from its investment universe as it aims to rid its portfolio of coal. Norway's Kommunal Landspensjonskasse (KLP) took the decision to divest almost $520,000 of holdings in stocks and bonds of across ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... needle globally. "Similar mandates have been implemented for publicly traded companies in 14 other countries ranging from Norway and France to India and Malaysia, with several additional jurisdictions having quotas for state-owned businesses." "As of ...

Pension funds feel the heat on climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
A study of the world's 100 largest public pension funds has found more than 60% have little or no climate change strategy. This includes a number of Australian superannuation funds. A new report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project shows 63% ...

Australian retirement outcomes among the best

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2018
... placed sixth overall for retirement outcomes in Natixis' Global Retirement Index, sitting behind Switzerland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and New Zealand. According to Natixis, Australia's ranking is attributed to an improvement in its "finances" score ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil slips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... from Iran), supply disruptions in Libya, trouble in Iraq's oil-rich southern region and a strike by oil workers in Norway combined to keep the price of crude elevated. Crude oil prices dropped sharply overnight as some or all of these have been halted ...

Norway dominates sovereign wealth funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) remains the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, buoyed by an equities portfolio propelling most of its US$1.06 trillion assets under management. Preqin's latest sovereign wealth fund asset report shows ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... mid-market energy infrastructure in continental Europe. It followed the acquisition of SAE, an energy form waste plant in Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden. Whitehelm has invested about €5.8 billion ($8.7 billion) in its 19-year history ...