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Treasurer calls for planners to enter China

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... The population of those 80 and older will expand fourfold to 6.8%. By 2019 the proportion of people aged 60 and older in China will lead that of people aged zero to 14. "Our opportunities in China go beyond the macro trends and we can run the inner track." ...

Foreign investment into Australia doubles to $43.6bn

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... Region Funds Passport and free trade agreements with Japan and Korea are already having a positive impact on flows. With the China agreement now passed through parliament and the Trans-Pacific Partnership underway, there is strong momentum to achieve ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... think what that this dearer currency implies for commodity prices and to US exports, particularly given the slowdown in China (new target 6.5%) and the Eurozone (real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the third quarter from 0.4% in the second) and Japan (forecast ...

Goldman Sachs calls time on BRICs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has closed its BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Fund and integrated it into a wider emerging markets fund. After the firm first coined the term in 2001, the move effectively brings the BRIC era to an end. GSAM notified ...

The importance of Asian trade agreements

GREG O'NEILL, PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE, LA TROBE  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015

Finsia partners with Hong Kong institute

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... (ASIF). ASIF is the peak body for securities institutes in the Asian region and includes representatives from Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Taipei and Thailand. The HKSI Institute offers a comprehensive program of professional training ...

Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... sliding back to US$49.50 a tonne at the end of last month. The direction of iron ore prices is largely tied to outlook for China's economy - the world's largest consumer of the commodity. Iron ore prices traded closer to US$200 per tonne back when China ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... Virginia, the Fed couldn't... in December. While we continue to speculate on when the Fed will make its "earth-shattering" move, China's already shaking the planet. Perhaps literally as more Chinamen walk the planet soon. Xinhua reports that in a communique ...

Australian politics spooks foreign infra investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... in any one project, with 36% saying they were ready to invest more than $2 billion. Investors still prefer Australia over China "because of the transparency, maturity and stability of our market and proven ability to get money in and out," Perpetual ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... the ECB and the PBOC did what they did out of the goodness of their heart? Or that the central banks of the Eurozone and China were merely playing Kris Kringles to see if they can still move markets? Double-duh! What happened in the financial markets ...