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FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... well when rates go up." The age of divergence With the US and the United Kingdom ready to raise rates and the Eurozone and Japan still undertaking quantitative easing policies, volatility is set to increase everywhere once rates rise in the US: "The ...

NAB enters into MOU with Nippon Life

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
NAB has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Nippon Life to build a life insurance partnership. The goal, according to NAB's ASX statement, is to "[enter] a long-term partnership in life insurance product manufacturing," although NAB added ...

Man Group appoints APAC director

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... in Australia to the role of managing director for the Asia Pacific region. Hersh Gandhi will be responsible for APAC ex-Japan, effective immediately. He will lead the alternative investment manager's institutional and retail client business across the ...

Holding pattern

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... in China and east Asia of late, but stronger US growth". Though some expanded an expansion of QE this month, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) also didn't budge which, like the RBA, saw that "Overseas economies - mainly advanced economies -- have continued to ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... while at the same time taking the scissors to many others, including 0.2pp markdowns each (from its July projections) in Japan's GDP growth forecasts to 0.6% and 1.0% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. A nice seque into China's continued point scoring against ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... the fast-growing Asia-Pacific." FSC chief executive Sally Loane said the agreement complements free trade agreements with Japan, Korea and China and is a positive step in the right direction for financial services trade as Australia transforms into a ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... equity market. "We calculated that global equity valuations are at reasonably fair levels and that stocks can rise in Europe, Japan and Australia, but because we are less optimistic on the United States, we do not think it is worthwhile, especially with ...

Japan pension fund backs responsible investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015
... Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) after a recent UN assembly meeting. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced that Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) would sign on in a move that "will surely contribute to the achievement ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Japanese life giant to acquire rival

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mitsui Life. Following industry speculation in August that Nippon, Japan's second-biggest life insurer, was planning to acquire Mitsui in September, the two companies have jointly announced a "basic ...