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State of pension funds
Category: Articles/Investments
... Norway and Poland; • The OECD-weighted average asset to gross domestic product ratio for pension funds increased form 60.3% of GDP in 2008 to 67.1% of GDP in 2009, with the Netherlands improving ...Tuesday, 17 August 2010 -
Inaugural Africa Leadership Retreat
Category: Media Releases/Media Releases
... According to a report by global consulting firm McKinsey, published in June, Africa's real GDP rose by 4.9% every year from 2000 through 2008. To maintain this growth, more regional integration has to ...Monday, 12 July 2010 -
Sovereign debt
Category: Articles/Investments
... product, the UK, US and Japan also hover between 8% and 12% of GDP. Australia was the only country in the mainstream world economy which escaped the recession officially, although Australians did feel ...Tuesday, 25 May 2010 -
Global economy in trouble?
Category: Articles/Other
... $840 billion in public debt represents less than 20% of GDP. But the People's Bank of China and the Treasury also are liable for potentially another $1.5 trillion in off-balance-sheet debt. They also are ...Monday, 29 March 2010 -
Mauritius
Category: Articles/Investments
... nearly 11% to GDP, is home to 19 banks and 18 insurance and re-insurance companies serving both domestic and global markets. Islamic Finance and Wealth Management have grown to have an even larger influence ...Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
SA LISTED PROPERTY SHOWS ITS METTLE
Category: Articles/Investments
... The bear market saw prices, as measured by the Plexus Global GDP-weighted REIT Index, fall by more than 68% from the all-time high in January 2007. According to Du Plessis, the Plexus Global REIT Index ...Friday, 29 January 2010 -
The day after
Category: Articles/Investments
... In Western Europe, Italy faces a similar figure. US deficit The headline grabber, though, has been the US economy, whose fiscal deficit has resulted in a debt-to-GDP figure in excess of 100%. If the ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Post-crisis investment
Category: Articles/Investments
... that developed economies have provided direct support amounting to 10% of global GDP. This cannot continue ad infinitum and, as the BCA puts it, there has to be “payback”. Recent analysis by Rodney Sullivan, ...Monday, 07 December 2009 -
Global stock markets
Category: Articles/Investments
... tracks the US GDP-weighted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI). “Current levels of the S&P 500 Index indicate the market is expecting a GDP-weighted PMI in the region of 55 to 60,” says Du Plessis. “Given ...Friday, 20 November 2009 -
Sanlam
Category: Articles/Banking
... primary balance remaining in deficit, although it is projected to decline from 5.2% of GDP in 2009/10 to 1% in 2012/13. The result is a sustained increase in the debt-GDP ratio to 41% in 2012/13. If ...Wednesday, 28 October 2009 -
Investec Bank
Category: Articles/Banking
... year. We continue to expect that the final outcome will be a budget deficit of 8.3% of GDP, writes Annabel Bishop, group economist of Investec Bank. This record outcome will be due to the sharp ...Wednesday, 28 October 2009 -
Rand Merchant Bank
Category: Articles/Banking
... tax revenue is budgeted to exceed growth in nominal GDP. This can only occur if the tax base expands, tax administration improves even more and/or new taxes are introduced (for example, a new environmental ...Wednesday, 28 October 2009 -
Focus on
Category: Articles/Banking
... The Nigerian government’s current federal budget is predicated on a projected growth of 9.2% in gross domestic product (GDP) during 2009. Such a robust growth now seems impossible to attain. Speaking ...Monday, 14 September 2009 -
Recession Labyrinth and Escape Routes
Category: Articles/Development
... of real gross domestic product (GDP) contraction (-6.4% quarter-on-quarter growth on a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis in the first quarter of 2009, -1.8% in the fourth quarter of 2009). For ...Wednesday, 26 August 2009 -
Skills Development
Category: Articles/Other
... the continent’s population and produce 30% of the continent’s GDP. The Chinese describe Africa as their ‘continent of choice’ because it is the richest continent on earth in terms of still-unwrapped mineral ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
The world according to the gospel of Google
Category: Articles/International Trends
... years of GDP growth” and shows how the British economy had personal and private debt soaring at a rate higher than any other industrialised economy over the past decade. We have always feared inflation; ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Land of opportunity
Category: Articles/Investments
... announced aggressive plans to raise per-capita GDP from US$230 to $900 by 2020, using information technology to transform the nation into an “African Singapore”. Despite the dire situation in Sudan’s ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Sub-Saharan Africa offers more positives than negatives
Category: Articles/Investments
... domestic product (GDP) growth was a weak 0.9%. Since then it has averaged closer to 5%; and before the global financial meltdown, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was predicting GDP growth in excess ...Wednesday, 01 July 2009 -
Attack on havens
Category: Articles/Other
... Global Terrorism.3 Napoleoni estimates in her academically well researched book the “new economy of terror” to be approximately 5% of the world GDP. In his introduction to this book, George Magnus, chief ...Tuesday, 08 July 2008 -
Attack on havens
Category: Articles/Other
... her academically well researched book the “new economy of terror” to be approximately 5% of the world GDP. In his introduction to this book, George Magnus, chief economist of the largest ...Monday, 05 May 2008 -
Manuel congratulates SARS, tax payers
Category: Articles/Other
... billion. “Our preliminary estimate of national expenditure is R541.6 billion, bringing the main budget surplus to R18.5 billion or 0.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which is 0.1 ...Wednesday, 02 April 2008 -
BER predicts cooling
Category: Articles/Other
... (GDP) growth in 2008 would slow to 3.9%, with mining output sliding by 1.6%. However, if its “more negative” alternative scenario came to fruition, a 4.8% blow to mining production would put ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
Patient in danger
Category: Articles/Other
... range appropriate for our economy? Economic forecasts are being lowered and this trend will probably continue. It is unlikely that we will achieve 6% GDP and we will not create enough jobs which we desperately ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
Unprecedented volatility
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... “It’s not all doom and gloom. There is good and bad all over the world; while the Chinese may have cut their GDP figures from above 10% to 9.6%, they are still buying resources, and South Africa ...Wednesday, 20 February 2008 -
Looking back as we drive ahead
Category: Articles/Other
... on global consumption and GDP. Expect further ramifi cations into 2008. Global stock markets certainly had a choppy time during 2007, mainly due to the sub-prime issue. The Dow Jones was trading at 12 ...Friday, 25 January 2008
