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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 ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
... minus 0.1%, it's got plenty more room gauging from other countries - Denmark (minus 0.65%); Switzerland (minus 0.75%); Sweden (minus 1.1%) - which have already instituted negative interest rate policies. Make no mistake, "The Bank will continue with ...

AMP Capital to acquire Nordic infrastructure company

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... to take a 100% equity stake in Adven Group Oy. Adven is a provider of energy infrastructure for businesses in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Some of its services included district heat solutions, regulated gas distribution and the supply of geothermal ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... since the 2007-09 crisis has been able to sustain them at a higher level. That includes central banks in the eurozone, Sweden, Israel, Canada, South Korea and Australia" - they all reversed course. Reminds me of Homer's (Simpson) question, "What's the ...