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Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... the repo rate (currently at 0.05%) to negative - he has the central banks of the two "S's" of Europe - Switzerland and Sweden - as precedents. The SNB and the Riksbank have their key policy rates currently sitting at minus 0.75% and minus 0.35%, respectively. ...

European managers in property buying spree

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015

Australians retiring young despite rising life expectancy

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... According to AMP.NATSEM's Income and Wealth report, Australians often enter retirement earlier than in Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and China. The report suggests this may be because those countries have a higher demand for labour and/or skills shortages ...

Tempo finds beta growth in Europe, Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... a real switch in strategy to now get into more aggressive markets." The manager has moved out of Switzerland, the UK or Sweden and into Spain, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Singapore. Bracken attributed the change to the fact that those markets are ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... of the continent. Roughly half of asset managers said their market share will grow in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. The rest said market share will stay roughly the same and only a tiny minority think it will fall. Angelos Gousios, associate ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... countries applying for PFM as of 30 March 2015. Hong Kong joins the delegation of China in the negotiations. Spain and Sweden have the intention to apply. Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan, and Ukraine are under consideration of ...

Stimulate or deflate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... deflation - the next worry?" instead of a "?" for now it is. And central banks are "printing and reflating". Last week it was Sweden's Riksbank turn. It cut interest rates to negative and announced a bond buying programme worth around 10 billion Swedish ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... five sectors (water, gas, electricity, broadcasting towers and transportation) and six countries (UK, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Spain). The Fund's investor base is made up of 49 institutional investors of whom the majority are pension funds ...

Phone usage reveals opportunity for financial services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... consumers places Australia as the fifth most concentrated smartphone market in the world after Singapore, Norway, Spain and Sweden. Part of a global four year longitudinal Deloitte study of 37,000 consumers spanning 22 countries - the research reveals ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... tumbled 3.3 percent from a year ago and U.K. inflation unexpectedly plunged to its lowest in five years. Prices in Israel and Sweden are even falling in an indication of deflation." That was the day the S&P 500 dropped by around 3% intra-day, 10-year ...