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Australia climbs up Mercer global pension index

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... conducted in conjunction with the Monash Centre for Financial Studies - showed Australia lacks when compared to the Netherlands and Denmark, the nation's registering first and second in the index, with Australia scoring a B+, thanks to an overall score ...

Aussie employers understand importance of advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019
... important. What's more, the 61% proportion of Aussie employers who do, sit well below their global counterparts. In the Netherlands that number is 71%, while in the UK, US and Ireland, 78%, 81% and 83% of employers respectively agree access to retirement ...

Australia investor friendly, not consumer friendly: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... short end of the stick when it comes to fees and charges. The Global Investor Experience Study found Australia, the Netherlands and the United States have the lowest fees for investors, while countries like Italy and Taiwan rated the worst. Morningstar's ...

Chief economist update: Whatever it takes, however long it takes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... it takes" despite the growing chorus of dissent from central bank heads and officials from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands against a big stimulus package, Draghi over-delivered. "First, as regards the key ECB interest rates, we decided to lower ...

Retiree savings won't last: World Economic Forum

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... fast enough to address this deterioration and, as such, most retirees in six nations - Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK and the US - can expect to live past their savings by almost a decade. Han Yik, WEF head of institutional investors ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... been because people didn't have anything else to fall back on. They didn't have other assets." Wood warned that the Netherlands has a similar retirement system Australia's, but its super guarantee equivalent has been in existence much longer. In the ...

Robeco wins super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... with Christian Super to achieve their sustainable investment goals," Dennis said. Headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Robeco manages about $263 billion in assets.

Life expectancy declining: KPMG

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... the market, according to Willis Towers Watson. Such schemes are also popular in Japan (96%), Canada (95%) and the Netherlands (94%). The Grattan Institute believes Australians can expect to live 82.5 years on average - a life expectancy longer than most ...

Dutch insto opens Australian office

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... real estate portfolio, targeting 40% of its total AUM in international assets and 60% of the domestic funds in the Netherlands. "The fast-growing Asia-Pacific markets will play a key role in achieving those ambitious growth targets," he said. In 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Euro contagion redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
"Growth rates for many of the euro area economies have been marked up, especially for Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, reflecting the stronger momentum in domestic demand and higher external demand. Growth in Spain, which has been well above potential ...