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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 ...

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 ...