Federal Labor MP Pat Conroy will demand to know why Australian banks have higher returns on
equity than those in other countries when he questions bank chief executives attending a Canberra hearing next week.
Not exact matches
Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests principally
in equity securities of companies that derive a majority of their revenues or profits from, or have a majority of their assets
in, a
country or
countries other than the U.S..
NBAD raised $ 757 million
in two
equity deals, more
than was raised by any
other bank
in the United Arab Emirates, and led the
country's public bond market by raising $ 1.5 billion
in 12 bond deals.
Grupo Aval, based
in Bogotá, raised $ 669 million
in a single
equity deal last year, more
than any
other bank
in Colombia, making it the
country's second - highest overall earner of investment banking fees, according to Dealogic.
That's because no district
in the
country can afford to staff its schools
in the same way as The
Equity Project School, and because there will be plenty of room to argue that factors
other than teacher pay have caused its success.
For Massachusetts, if you want to be like Finland or best
in the world (not a good idea
in the first place, no one tries to be best
in the world), maybe you should put
equity first rather
than always raising standards and trying to compete with
other states and
countries with test scores.
We see this environment as positive for
equities in the US and
other developed
countries as stronger growth will more
than offset higher interest rates.
International
equity — letting poor
countries emit more carbon
than rich
countries from here on out — demands that the United States, Europe, and
other historically high emitting
countries should position themselves for at least 80 percent reduction
in emissions by 2030.
The FTSE NAREIT All
Equity REIT Index, a benchmark of U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs), rose 19.7 percent
in 2012, while the FTSE EPRA / NAREIT Developed ex-US Index, a benchmark of REITs and REIT - like companies from developed
countries other than the United States rose 38.6 percent.