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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 ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index. With a score of 79.9%, Australia outperformed the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland and Sweden in the index, and was just behind Denmark, which scored 82.4%. This represents a 2% rise from 2013, and puts Australia ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Spain; 2%-3% for Belgium, Denmark, Germany and France; 3%-4% for Austria, Netherlands and the UK and 4%-5% Finland and Sweden.

Rich get richer fastest in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... going to the richest one percent in Australia rose more than 80% versus about 140% in the US and around 75% in third placed Sweden. The total share of national income going to the richest one percent in Australia is about 9%. The figure puts Australia's ...

Global uncertainty provides opportunities in retail property

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... while Unibail is a Dutch company, it owns shopping malls right across Europe from the stronger Northern economies such as Sweden down to the more debt-laden countries including Spain. "These are blue-chip stocks in their respective markets and should ...

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... their expensive pension systems. "Countries with virtuous public finances in the Maastricht sense, such as for example, Sweden, Luxembourg or Denmark, are much less virtuous if their public pension commitments are taken into account, while the situation ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... to follow the United States in postponing the introduction of the Basel III reforms" for another six months or longer. 6 Sweden and Norway replace Switzerland as havens. Not if you look at their relative 10-year benchmark bond yields. Since the day of ...

Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... Switzerland (US$468,186) Over the past year, the number of dollar millionaires in Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden has diminished as a proportion of the global total, but has risen in the United States and Japan. The number of millionaires ...

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Insignia taps SS&C, outsources 1000 workers

KARREN VERGARA
Insignia Financial has tapped SS&C Technologies to transform its master trust business as part of its cost-cutting drive that is set to outsource more than 1000 of its employees to the fund administrator.

UniSuper names product head

ELIZABETH FRY
UniSuper has appointed a new head of product following Ian Lorimer's decision to step down after 13 years with the superannuation fund.

Funds are 'getting back to basics', says report

ANDREW MCKEAN
Global public pension funds and sovereign funds are refocusing on generating long-term returns, generally targeting opportunities in private markets, emerging markets, and green assets, according to the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) Global Public Funds 2024 report.

TAL creates consumer and growth division

MATTHEW WAI
The life insurer has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team.

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