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OECD Annual Inflation Rate Steady at 2.1% in January 2011

added: 09-03-2011

Consumer prices in the OECD area rose by 2.1% in the year to January 2011, the same inflation rate as in December 2010. Energy and food prices continued to rise at relatively high rates: 8.4% and 2.6% respectively in January 2011, broadly unchanged from December 2010.

Nine in Ten Americans Say U.S. Retirement System under Severe Stress

added: 09-03-2011

A new public opinion research report finds that an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the nation’s retirement infrastructure is crumbling and that stock market volatility makes it impossible to predict retirement savings. The research also finds that Americans remain highly anxious about their ability to achieve a secure retirement, view retirement as simply surviving, and believe Washington is disconnected from Americans’ retirement anxiety.

Financial Rules Must Do More For Developing Countries

added: 09-03-2011

Overhauls of global financial rules typically take years to put into action and rapidly lose relevance. The Basel I and II accords succeeded one another, and took roughly a decade each to implement. The global financial crisis abruptly ended implementation of the latter. Basel III may be no different. The risk is that today’s proposed fixes address the problems of yesterday. If these fixes look outdated now, then they will look even more irrelevant by 2018 – the deadline for full implementation.

Hedge Funds and Equities in Demand in 2010, According to Towers Watson

added: 09-03-2011

The number of equity mandates awarded by global professional services company Towers Watson’s clients worldwide in 2010 increased by over 30% from 2009, while the number of hedge fund mandates grew by 50% during the same period. At the same time, the number of bond mandates fell by 30%, with U.S. and European bonds showing the most significant fall in demand from the previous year. Private markets attracted significantly more interest from investors in 2010 than in 2009, with the number of mandates growing 73%, led by renewed interest in direct real estate and distressed debt.

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index in February 2011

added: 09-03-2011

The Conference Board Employment Trends Index™ (ETI) increased in February for the fifth consecutive month. The index now stands at 101.7, up from January’s revised figure of 100.1. The index is up over 8 percent from a year ago.

London Stock Exchange: Monthly Market Report – February 2011

added: 09-03-2011

London Stock Exchange Group (LSE.L) sits at the heart of the world’s financial community, offering international business unrivalled access to Europe’s capital markets. In February a total of 25.4 million trades were carried out across the Group’s electronic equity order books with a combined value of £191.3 billion (€226.1 billion), up eight per cent on February 2010 (£177.8 billion).

Deloitte Report Views Insurers to Be 'Bearish' About Economic Growth for the Next Two Years

added: 08-03-2011

The ongoing struggle to maintain growth in a slowly recovering economy, coupled with a host of new challenges and issues, has resulted in the insurance industry adopting a "bearish" attitude toward economic growth, according to a new report from Deloitte.

Emerging Auto Insurance and Aggregator Sites Attracting Meaningful Share of Online Auto Insurance Market

added: 08-03-2011

comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, announced the availability of an expanded competitive set of insurers and aggregator sites for its online auto insurance benchmarker. In Q4 2010, these additional sites accounted for 724,000 submitted quotes, making up 8 percent of quotes submitted online.

Environment: Households Going Green

added: 08-03-2011

Mexicans and Koreans worry more about their environment than people in the Netherlands. And many Australians and Norwegians say their own actions can make a difference.

Small Businesses Doubled Use of Twitter in 2010

added: 08-03-2011

Twitter usage has been growing quickly among small and medium-sized businesses, according to a report on small local firms.

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