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Life powers Chinese insurance industry

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Life insurance is the primary driver of the rapid growth of China's insurance industry, according to research from credit agency Dagong. Dagong's report showed that life insurance represented 62.7% of gross premiums written at the end of 2014. Similarly ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... coming to the fore. The uncertainty over the "when" of the Fed's first step towards policy normalisation. Concerns over China's slowdown - which became even more concerning after the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) shaved the country's growth outlook ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... Europe and the Middle East. And again from the AFR, "Citi chief economist Willem Buiter says global recession nears, led by China". To be sure, the global economic backdrop has become even more challenging with slowing growth being compounded by the ...

OPINION: Why ditching the monarchy makes sense in the Asian century

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY AT THE FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... strong. In 2014, our government negotiated long awaited free trade agreements with three of our four top trading partners - China, Japan and South Korea. In this context we cannot argue that the vestiges of colonialism have held Australia back from becoming ...

Not happy Jan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term" and Janet's clarification, "We focused particularly on China and emerging markets". You, I and Irene have seen the data alright and they paint a picture of a US economy that's growing ...

AMP restructures China Fund to reduce discount

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
In a bid to reduce the 20.4% discount on its China Growth Fund, AMP Capital has introduced key changes based on a review by Goldman Sachs. The changes include implementing a Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect trading platform to increase the fund's liquidity. ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... behavioural factors, probably decided some time ago that the union is doomed. But they're still waiting," Sicilia said. On China Sicilia said if investors lose faith in the Chinese government's ability to control their economy and China's 7% annual growth ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... teaches children about financial literacy, the Shanghai F-road Commercial Services program that helps banks provide rural China customers with mobile banking services, and the Kiva program that crowdfunds microfinance. "An estimated 1.2 billion people ...

China stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
It couldn't have come soon enough. Hopes that China's powers-that-are would counter the slowdown in their economy with more stimulus measures - any stimulus measure - just turned into reality. Yes folks, Beijing's topping up last month's monetary policy ...