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IFM acquires US$5.7 billion highway

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... opportunity to acquire a large, high-quality, US-denominated transportation asset, giving our investors direct linkage to US GDP and CPI," said IFM global head of infrastructure Kyle Mangini. "ITR is a core infrastructure asset with defensive characteristics ...

IGR proves current welfare level is unsustainable: FSC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... to revenue, and has bi-partisan political and wide industry support. "With Australia's annuity market representing 0.3% of GDP, compared with more than 15% in the United States according to the FSI report, we've clearly got some catching up to do in ...

Economic growth to slow significantly: IGR

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... the government's policies are fully implemented it projects the underlying cash balance to improve to a surplus of 1.4% of GDP in 2039-40, and then moderate to a surplus of around 0.5% of GDP in 2054-55. Net debt is projected to be fully paid off by ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... both for January. Mr McCarthy said that data was likely to influence the market at large. "One of the components missing from GDP yesterday was consumption," he said. "It was a contributor to that weak reading, so any signs that retail sales are rebounding ...

Demography must drive reform

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... quadruple. Accordingly, there will be increased health and pension costs. Health expenditure will almost double by 2050 to 27% of GDP. As a proportion of GDP, spending on health is projected to rise from 4% to 7.1%. Pension costs are expected to rise ...

Beauty in(foreign) beholders' eyes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... is providing less assistance in delivering balanced growth in the economy than it could." "The slightly weaker outlook for GDP growth in the near term implies that the unemployment rate is likely to rise a bit further and peak a bit later than earlier ...

BOJ optimistic as forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... economy emerged out of recession in the fourth quarter -- disappointing as it may be, growth is still growth -- with real GDP expanding at annualised rate of 2.2% in the fourth quarter (against expectations for a 3.7% gain); not straight after the Nikkei-225 ...

Grexit not Greek to Brits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... without the inklings of contagion, Greece is a non-matter - it makes up around an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.3% of global GDP. That, or go bankrupt. But never mind, it's what his people want anyway gauging from the "Bankrupt but Free" slogans doing the ...

It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... measures up. It was all up for the US labour market in January despite the fourth quarter's slower than expected 2.6% real GDP growth and concerns over reduced investment - including hiring -- in the US energy sector due to the drop in oil prices and ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... heads". Perhaps, it was the January "the slowest in decades, the weakest in a quarter of a century, the missed target 7.4% GDP growth in 2014 headlines that prompted the PBOC to act. But nah, an exclusive report published by Reuters on 28 January tells ...