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Australian retirement system weakens

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... providing adequate financial security for retirees that is also economically sustainable. Topping the list was the Netherlands and Denmark on 80.3 and 80.2 respectively; Denmark previously held first place for the last six years. Of the 34 countries ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... levels across eight countries. SSGA's Global Retirement Reality Report polled 9400 people across Australia, US, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Ireland and Italy. The study charted the 9400 respondents' self-reported levels of happiness against ...

Arnhem portfolio manager departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018
... Investment Partners. He also spent about 12 years at BNP Paribas Asset Management's ABN AMRO Asset Management in The Netherlands. ABN AMRO Asset Management established an Australian equities capability in Sydney in 2000 which would later become Arnhem ...

Pension funds feel the heat on climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
A study of the world's 100 largest public pension funds has found more than 60% have little or no climate change strategy. This includes a number of Australian superannuation funds. A new report from the Asset Owners Disclosure Project shows 63% ...

Aussie super asset allocation "riskier": Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... Australia's allocation to bonds was the lowest of the nations analysed for its report - Australia, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. The asset manager said this demonstrated Australia's appetite ...

Weighing the lucrative expat lifestyle

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... overall score - 71.58% - when ranked on lifestyle, career, financial and family. It just beat out Japan (71.22) and the Netherlands (71.17). "Even though Singapore's cost of living is quite high (27% of expats reported spending more on their daily bills ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires AGL assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... investment consultant to Prime Super. In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum tank storage terminal in the Netherlands on behalf of several pension funds.

Nomura appoints Australian president

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... other appointments outside of Japan. Yamasaki will join Nomura's Australian arm on April 1. He was previously Nomura's Netherlands president, a role he held for about three years. The recent appointments bring Nomura's senior management line-up to about ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... investment consultant to Prime Super. In September 2017, Whitehelm acquired a petroleum tank storage terminal in the Netherlands on behalf of several pension funds. Whitehelm agreed to acquire 90% of the shares in Vopak Terminal Eemshaven - a joint venture ...

Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... also common in the US. Defined benefits (DB) meanwhile dominate the pension systems in Japan (96%), Canada (95%), the Netherlands (94%) and the UK (81%). Japan and Canada however, are now showing signs of a shift to DC, the report said. Urwin said DC ...