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Schroders readies private assets offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... Australian-domiciled fund of an underlying Luxembourg vehicle that invests in companies across the word, including US, China and India, with a special focus on small to medium sized companies. "It will invest in all businesses in all stages of development ...

Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... with Rupiah 20 lakh crore (trillion) -- USD 260 billion - equivalent to 10% of Indian GDP, on May 12. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) also went to work, cutting its benchmark repo rate and the reverse repo rate by 75 bps each to 4.4% and 4.15%, respectively ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... has been Brazil's experience this time as well, as the real slumped as much as 30% against the US dollar." He also argued India had underperformed in its response to the spreading virus. "A key measure for EM progress will be which countries manage to ...

Details of Mayfair's default revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
... that Mayfair's assets had dropped by about $17.7 million, which appeared to relate to investments in Accloud and Paymate India. Mawhinney said that due the illiquid nature of investments, Mayfair would draw on funds under its unsecured loan agreement ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs China more than it needs us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... exports (based on World Bank figures) that roughly equates to what Australia sells to Japan (16.4%), South Korea (7.0%), India (4.9%), US (3.8%), and Singapore (2.9%) combined. Australian exports account for around 20% of the country's GDP. If my ...

Hedge funds rally in April, but YTD still bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... primary fund strategies eVestment tracks, at +10.73%, but are posting YTD returns of -16.76%," the database said. "Similarly, India-focused hedge funds posted strong returns of +11.89% in April, but are in the red at -17.67% for the year." Other performance ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... among them, oil - slashed, efforts to maintain economic growth have been overwhelmed." Similarly, neither Indonesia nor India are well equipped to manage a surge in COVID-19 cases, Grana and Culley argued. Vulnerable countries were also likely to experience ...

Chief economist update: No escaping the inverted yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... beginning to) flattened their respective curves and are now gradually relaxing restrictions. Among them: Australia, New Zealand, India, Italy, Spain, Germany, Greece, Iran and Saudi Arabia. China, of course, ended its lockdown weeks earlier (7 April). ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... impacting oil demand, oil producers and exporting countries will also be impacted. However, net oil importer countries, such as India, Turkey or China may be favoured in the current environment. Despite improving investor sentiment, the asset manager ...