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Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... up only on AAA-rated bonds. There's only a handful - seven - of them now: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland. Though Germany's still AAA, it's now on a negative outlook.

Genetics not education drives investor behaviour

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... Biases?' The research is based on a study of more than 15,000 Swedish twins from the world's largest twin registry, the Sweden Twin Registry, that matched detailed data on the twins' investment behaviors against their genetic profile. The methodology ...

Australia's retirement system the most sustainable in the world

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
Australia has been ranked as having the best prepared retirement savings system followed by Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand and the Netherlands, according to Allianz Global Investors. The Allianz Global Investors Pension Sustainability Index (PSI) measures ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
... by 5.74%, Finland's OMX Helsinki index by 5.1% and Italy's MIB by 4.9%. For greater emphasis, how about the 6.2% jump in Sweden's OMX Stockholm index? Now I'm not one to 'rah-rah' against this - I'll take anything that boosts confidence and make the ...

Aussie downgrades likely as S&P reviews rating system

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... the new system. Preliminary tables published by S&P show Australia's former Group 1 stablemates Canada, Switzerland and Sweden retaining their top rating in the new system, but Hong Kong will push Australia down to Category 2, a position it will likely ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... of 2.93, marginally above the global average of 2.76. Norway tops the table with 3.73, followed by the Netherlands and Sweden. New Zealand is fifth. Two Australian companies are in the top 12 global firms. Westpac Banking Corp has an overall rating of ...

Better and better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... improvement in the latest purchasing managers indices in China, India, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Sweden, Brazil, Czech Republic, Turkey... shall I go on? Markit Economics latest report shows that they're all above 50 and rising ...

Aussie fund managers outside top 100

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... the top 500, countries with smaller economies, and smaller investment markets than ours, including South Africa, Denmark, Sweden and Belgium, all have entries in the top 100. With the exception of South Africa (boosted by 34th placed behemoth Old Mutual ...

Super, homes and savings a happy combo

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... having to work harder to juggle family, job and financial pressures. Australia ranks equal third with the United States and Sweden in overall life satisfaction among OECD countries, with an average score of 7.9 out of 10, beaten only by Ireland, Norway ...

Valad wins $700m property mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... Property Group has won a $700 million mandate from Kefren Properties IX AB to manage the firm's real estate portfolio in Sweden. According to a press statement, the Kefren portfolio consists of 150 properties spanning more than 827,000sqm of lettable ...