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China impossible to ignore for asset managers

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Vanguard Asia-Pacific head of investment strategy group, Jeffrey Johnson, said China is a market that is impossible for investors to ignore despite its economy continuing to slow. Speaking at an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) ...

Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Hedge fund returns have been hit by the Chinese market correction and by the Greek debt crisis, a global Eurekahedge report for June 2015 showed. After five months of consecutive gains, hedge funds posted their first monthly loss this year in June ...

HK funds market just ahead of Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... products, said HK is a central intermediary linking global investors who want exposure and close access to the mainland China economy, and that this will be reinforced by better regulatory alignments. Reflecting this investor appetite, in local currency ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... lower revenues for the 13th consecutive quarter and United Technologies cut its earnings forecasts due to weak growth in China and weak aviation parts sales. IBM fell 5.9 per cent, while UTC dropped 7.0 per cent. LONDON - European stocks reversed their ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders if AMP Capital ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... financial community's growing fear about further devaluation of the US dollar. Not true no more. US dollar weakness has prompted China, Russia and India to propose that the greenback be replaced by a multi-reserve currency system. When faith in the fiat ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... in New York. HONG KONG - Asian stocks finished mixed, with Sydney and Shanghai rising as concerns eased over Greece and China's recent market rout. Shanghai led the gains but was undergoing some fresh volatility as more firms traded again after being ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Foreign investors can access China through an increasing number of channels. A-shares, H-shares and government bonds are the talk of the town in the world's buzziest financial districts. But there are still risks when investing in such a complex and ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... but feel confused cause for all throughout the duration of the Greek tragi-comedy and the "depression-inducing" "crash" in China's stockmarket, the A$ has remained not only above US74Ac but was fetching more than US76Ac.... and just when the Shanghai ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... Greece (austerity measures passed by Parliament) and better-than-expected US company earnings reports and another up day in China and not what she sang before the Senate Banking Committee last night. I could only guess that this is because, despite the ...