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Australia can benefit from Brexit and Trump

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... should consider increasing investment in Asia's emerging markets. The latest report from the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) shows Australian investors concerned with trade barriers resulting from Brexit and the Trump administration ...

Sovereign wealth fund growth steady

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... and so many are looking to set up and advance their own state-backed entities to assist the nation's socio-economic development and diversify exposure away from a reliance on one source," Sy explained. "As such, we may see sovereign wealth funds increasingly ...

Listed infrastructure has winners and losers

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
An evaluation of listed infrastructure is becoming ever more difficult as market conditions in the past year highlight how diverse the asset class is, toppled with the lack of a commonly accepted benchmark. In its recent Infrastructure Securities Sector ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... improvement from the 1.2% drop in the first quarter, helped by higher crude oil prices. Russia's Ministry of Economic Development expects the economy to contract by 0.2% in 2016 as growth improves to 0% in the third quarter and by 1.2% in the December ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... decade. Canada's resource sector is a major employer of Canada's Aboriginal people and major contributor to economic development in Canada's northern regions. Indonesia keen to promote PPP infra Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has said he is open to ...

QTC board appoints former Credit Suisse exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... Australian Treasury departments, where he was responsible for managing the state budgets and broader fiscal and economic development," Pitt said. Bradley served as Under Treasurer for both the Queensland and South Australian Treasuries and has worked ...

State governments must divest energy networks: CEDA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia is recommending each state government divest or privatise the provision of energy network services, a move that would open opportunities for infrastructure investors. CEDA says to usher in a new phase ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... 6.7%; Vietnam by 5.5%, Indonesia by 4.9%, Malaysia by 4.2% and Thailand by 3.2%. According to the National Economic Development Authority, "This robust performance of the economy increases the likelihood of achieving the DBCC-approved [Development Budget ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Rudd began his first term as Prime Minister, David Knox wrote a paper in conjunction with the Committee for Economic Development of Australia that called for the pension age to be lifted to 67. Among other recommendations, the 2007 paper also called ...

Super flagged to repair Australia's budget

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has put forward five options for repairing the federal budget balance by 2018, two of which centre around superannuation taxes. CEDA's first budget repair option includes a progressive super ...