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ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... to think of Europe as one large, uniform region. Other areas of similar size, like the United States, Australia and even China to some extent, work like that. But Europe doesn't, and never has. Maybe this is the reason why the Old Continent is so difficult ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... funds of life insurance corporations accounted for about 70% of AUM. A third paper, Potential Growth and Rebalancing in China, suggests much of China's recent slowing is probably structural rather than cyclical in nature. "A substantive reform program ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... margins in whatever they're doing and it's always above the industry average. They have exposure in the US, Latin America and China, [which are] all big markets at the end of the day." He said Australia once had companies such as Lion Nathan and Fosters ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... among the world's top 10 countries for the number of HNW in a list that also includes the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Canada and Italy. Ultra-HNW population in APAC grew by 14.3% and reached a total of 34,000 ...

Investment Manager Regime passes through Parliament

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... local financial services expertise in the wider Asia Pacific region. It says Free Trade Agreements with Japan, Korea and China, as well as the Asia Region Funds Passport are important steps for establishing liberalised trade. "Together with the Johnson ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... economic and social well-being," Mann said. Earlier this week Fitch Ratings said a continued slowdown and rebalancing in China, high corporate and household leverage in several economies, and looming US rate rises create a potentially challenging risk ...

Australia lagging in Asia-Pacific financial relationships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... of Australia's top five trading partners now lie in the Asia-Pacific. Today Australia signed a free-trade agreement with China after more than a decade of negotiations. The report suggests a shift is likely in 2015 with the gradual opening of China's ...

China's surging funds management market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
The surging Chinese stock market is retilting the balance of the global funds management market towards China much faster than anticipated. The Chinese stock market is expected to climb to US$10 trillion by the end of this year, driven by huge rises ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... concerned that policy makers need to step up to break that cycle," Peter said. QIC has modelled a worst case scenario in which China experiences a hard landing and its government's fiscal stimulus is not successful. In that scenario, the exchange rate ...

Cross-border distribution low despite initiatives

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... Chinese and Asian fund managers as a global vehicle for cross-border investment funds. As such, UCITs can provide access to China and its fund management industry which is estimated to triple in size to US$1.1 trillion this year." Crich also said a key ...