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Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... the Netherlands (78.8) are the only two pension systems ranked higher than Australia in 2017. New entrants to the index, Norway and New Zealand, achieved credible overall index values of 74.7 and 67.4 respectively. Knox said Australia's index value fell ...

Whitehelm acquires Netherlands asset for pension funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... mid-market energy infrastructure in continental Europe. It follows the acquisition of SAE, an energy form waste plant in Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden. "While large trophy assets sold through competitive auctions are attracting ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... (US$ millions) Rank Fund Market Total Assets 1 Government Pension Investment Japan $1,237,636 2 Government Pension Fund Norway $893,088 3 Federal Retirement Thrift U.S. $485,575 4 National Pension South Korea $462,161 5 ABP Netherlands $404,310 6 National ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... Pensioenfonds ABP and Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn in the Netherlands, Kommunal Landspenjonskasse Gjensidige Forsikringsselskap in Norway, Fjarde AP-Fonden in Sweden and Ilmarinen Mutual Pension Insurance in Finland. The top 10 countries by average ...

Tobacco and super funds must split

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... by any means, including through sovereign wealth funds or public pension funds, though only Australia, New Zealand and Norway have implemented that provision. King cited reputational risk as an incentive for institutions to divest from the tobacco industry ...

AMP Capital boosts Infrastructure Equity team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
... most recently an independent consultant with ESVAGT, a provider of emergency response and rescue services in Denmark and Norway's offshore oil and gas industries in which AMP Capital has a 50% stake. "Phil's extensive experience, which includes infrastructure ...

Australia ranks sixth in global pension survey

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... retirement policy in 43 nations around the world. Dominated by northern Europe the top 10 countries for retirement outcome are: Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, New Zealand, Sweden, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria and Canada. Commenting on ...

Financial services needs more female leaders

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... shows women account for 21% of financial services executive committee members in Australia. The global average is 16%, Norway placed on top at 33%, and Australia placed ninth. Managing partner of financial services at Oliver Wyman, Ted Moynihan, said ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... bonds from Commonwealth Bank of Australia, National Australia Bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, Goldman Sachs, Norway's Kommunalbanken, GE Capital Australia Funding and Apple. As VACF is an additional unit class of an existing managed fund ...

Easier for as long as necessary?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... for at minus 0.75%, it has the deepest negative interest rate not only in Europe but the world. Not so for Norges Bank - Norway's central bank - which unexpectedly cut interest rates by 25 bps to 0.5% last week and hinted that, "the key policy rate may ...