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Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... to access the Australian property market, which continues to demonstrate relative value compared to North American and European markets. "The depth of capital in foreign markets is huge - relative to Australia - and the weight of this money has compressed ...

Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... as to how they want their retirement savings managed," the RIAA paper said. "For similar reasons, the vast majority of European pension funds have in place at least one voluntary exclusion, to reflect the expectations of the beneficiaries." Hosting its ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... Eurozone is facing are a result of "a problem of the architecture of the Eurozone." "Europeans like to think that the European Union is the magnificent construction of the EU spirit. But none of that is true: the EU was created by the United States," ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
... National Bank (SNB) could follow up its recent verbal interventions with actual ones ahead of the near certainty that the European Central Bank (ECB) would boost its stimulus programme come 3 December. Could it be? Could it be that the SNB would be forced ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... should just chill out, come back and see what the data says." It's as certain as sure that by this time next week, the European Central Bank (ECB) would have announced increased policy accommodation - they're only now debating what form it'll take. Financial ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... followed by QE2, stopped... and then "Operation Twist" and then QE3. And wouldn't this create greater uncertainty? The European Central Bank (ECB) tried this before - it raised the repo rate from 1.0% to 1.25% in April 2011 and then to 1.5% by July of ...

Super changes won't close gender retirement gap: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... Tom Garcia believes without fresh policies there will be no improvement to women's retirement savings. Garcia said many European countries had introduced objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for their pension systems that took into account ...

Super fund chief in Paris for climate talks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... addressing the issue domestically but they both point to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions over time," Simm said. "The European Union has got a firm, ambitious commitment and it has done since the 1990s. Put those three blocs together and you've ...

HESTA chief advocates better tax reform

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... overseas models that recognise and value the important social and economic contribution that carers make. "Almost all European Union members and many South American countries have reformed their pension and retirement systems to address gender equity ...

Quantitative easing eases bank lending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015