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Aussie firms join gender index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2017

... for the first time, with ANZ, Bank of Queensland, QBE and Westpac appearing. Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mexico, Sweden and Turkey are also new additions. Firms included on the index demonstrate an average female board representation of 24.2% ...

No new monetary policy moves on horizon: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016

... largely to blame for the recent risk-off trade. "The countries that have resorted to negative rates to date - Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan - wanted to create a disincentive for banks and savers to hold money on deposit. In theory, the liquidity ...

Whitehelm appointment and acquisition

DARREN SNYDER | MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE | MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016

... interest rates in place, including the Bank of Japan (BoJ), the European Central Bank and the central banks of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Managing director of QIC's Global Liquid Strategies (GLS), Susan Buckley, said around 30% of the world's government ...

Australia ranks sixth in global pension survey

KERRIE SYDEE | THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016

... 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 the results managing director of Natixis in Australia ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016

... construction were recorded in Hungary (-26.6%), Slovenia (-21.2%) and Poland (-13.8%), while increases were observed in Sweden (+14.4%), Romania (+7.5%), Spain (+3.1%) and the Netherlands (+2.1%). HSR rail's 30,000 km global network With talk of High ...

Swedish pension giant commits to total decarbonisation

MARK SMITH | WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016

One of Sweden's largest pension funds has made the biggest single commitment to low carbon investing by an institutional investor. In order to reduce its exposure to climate risk, The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund, known as AP4, has allocated ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE | THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016

... balancing a fixed income portfolio along core stable, defensive and return-seeking lines. As a "core stable" example, he cited Sweden, which has an AAA credit rating, low inflation and 0.15% average yield in the covered bonds market. A good defensive ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016

... the ECB's policies work and are effective, "Just give them time to fully display their effects". Riksbank policy decision Sweden's central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at minus 0.5% at its 21 April meeting. No surprises there but markets did not ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG | FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016

... 0.5% and stated that it would continue buying government bonds over the next six months to support growth lift inflation - Sweden's core inflation rate have been weakening from 1.1% in October last year to 0.91% in December. The aim of negative interest ...

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More work to do on reportable situations compliance, ASIC says

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

Licensees are generally slow to report to ASIC because of deficient internal processes and poor monitoring of compliance with the reportable situations regime, a review found.

Centrepoint Alliance launches long-awaited IconiQ platform

ELIZA BAVIN

Centrepoint Alliance and FNZ have partnered to launch the IconiQ investment platform and the IconiQ SMA.

GDP grows but still slow: 'Confirms our worst fears'

ELIZA BAVIN

Australian GDP rose for the 12th consecutive quarter but continues to slow.

Tyndall AM head of Aussie equities to retire

JAMIE WILLIAMSON

Brad Potter is retiring as Tyndall Asset Management's head of Australian equities, with his replacement confirmed.

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