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Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... investing at double the pace of western countries. He said this over-investment is creating mass excess capacity in the world economy which is one of the reasons there is little sign of inflation. The OECD has also conducted new research on the implications ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... she? "But if the economy surprises us, our judgments about appropriate monetary policy will change." The way the world economy and financial markets is "surprising us" this very moment, gives more credence to Bank of England (BOE chief economist Andy ...

The man with the golden jawbone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... from European Central Bank executive board member and chief economist Peter Praet last night: "Developments in the world economy and in commodity markets have increased the downside risk of achieving the sustainable inflation path toward 2 percent... ...

Van Eck lists first A-shares ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... Management Company (ChinaAMC). While China only represents 1.72% of the MSCI World All Countries Index, it is 30% of the world economy. "This is a large gap that is going to be filled first by indices, then by institutional investors," Neiron said. ChinaAMC ...

I'm with Bill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... mark on Europe and more so, Japan (now in recession). This time in 2013, the same WEP report printed that, "The world economy is on the brink of another major downturn" because "the economic woes of the developed countries are spilling over to developing ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World Economy Gives Investors Growth Scare as They Look to U.S.": "The global economy faces its biggest test of confidence since the European ...

October h(a)unting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... epidemic - Ebola (recall how we peed our pants with SARS, bird flu and swine flu not so long ago?). There's the world economy - China's slowing, Japan's re-slowing and deflation continues to threaten the Eurozone. There's overvaluation, there's deteriorating ...

Global re-regulation takes shine off investment banks

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Financial sector stocks are often seen as a safe investment with almost no downside regardless what happens to the world economy, but global re-regulation of finance is causing investment strategists to question whether the tide is turning. The re-regulation ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... previous month and would detract from third quarter GDP. But Governor Kuroda remains optimistic, noting that, "The world economy is recovering and increasing its growth, and therefore, "we expect Japan's exports gradually to catch up." But is it? Kuroda's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... cent bigger than before its pre-GFC peak in early 2008. The IMF predicts Britain will be the fastest-growing major world economy in 2014. The euro fell to $US1.3433 from $US1.3464 at the end of a week during which the euro has touched eight-month lows ...