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COVID-19 upends business travel, technology

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... their business travel plans substantially in the future. The research, made in conjunction with The Economist Intelligence Unit, found nearly two-thirds (64%) of chief executives in the Asia Pacific leading the financial services, real estate and consumer ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... show Russia's GDP growth expanded by 1.5% in 2017 after a 0.2% contraction in the previous year. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts growth to accelerate to 2% this year. The unemployment rate has dropped to 5.2% in January 2018 from the three-year ...

NZ Super Fund sells private equity investments

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... none of the sales involved New Zealand assets. Last month BNP Paribas Securities Services and The Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper looking at how the world's pension funds, superannuation funds and insurance companies were reorganising their ...

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... priorities among Australian institutional investors. Last month BNP Paribas Securities Services and The Economist Intelligence Unit published a paper looking at how the world's pension funds, superannuation funds and insurance companies were reorganising ...

Number of instos prioritising risk doubles since GFC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... priority has more than doubled since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new research by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) commissioned by State Street Corporation. The survey of nearly 300 executives from global asset managers, intermediaries ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than 10 times that of Uncle Sam's minus 7.6% But ...

AustralianSuper creates Asian footprint

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... region." Prior to joining AustralianSuper, Joske was director of the China Forecasting Service at The Economist Intelligence Unit, where he managed economists and econometricians to provide advice to companies on the factors driving structural change ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... the WSJ, the country's budget deficit will exceed 8.5% of GDP this year (10% of GDP according to The Economist Intelligence Unit), "as the government struggles to meet revenue goals." How in hell could you expect additional revenues when you've sacked ...

Australia IT needs more R&D

... other OECD countries on investment in research and development (R&D), according to a new study by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the study called "The means to compete: Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness" ...

Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... market capitalisation built on the stable performances of the previous year. However, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit, a slowdown is expected in real GDP global growth, down from 5.4 per cent in 2006 to a forecast 4.8 per cent in 2007 and ...
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