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Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... highlighted another risk factor. The mainstream theory on the origin of COVID-19 is that it was spread via a wet market in the Chinese city of Wuhan originally. FAIRR found that 73% of the companies on the index were graded as high risk on the 'pandemic ...

Ninety One wins equity mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
A $42 billion superannuation fund has awarded a mandate that targets Chinese equities to the newly rebranded Ninety One. State Super has allocated the mandate to Ninety One's 4Factor All China Equity strategy. Ninety One manages $205 billion with ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... China will have suffered recession in 2020" and backed by the IMF's October 2020 "World Economic Outlook" predicting Chinese GDP growth of 1.9% this year and 8.2% in 2021. The sequential improvement in China's activity stats indicate sustained ...

Chief economist update: Get shorty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... to "get shorty". The PBOC imposed the 20% risk reserve ratio two years ago to contain what was then a fast depreciating Chinese yuan. It's now working to restrain the currency's move higher versus the US dollar, which has appreciated by 3.4% ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Outlook Interim Report puts it: "All G20 countries with the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020." Chinese GDP grew by 3.2% in the year to the June quarter after contracting by 6.8% in the first. Recent stats indicate the economy continuing ...

Court blocks bid to freeze Phil Kingston's assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
A court has blocked an attempt by Sargon's Chinese lender to freeze the assets of Phil Kingston, as the latter heads towards public questioning next month. China Insurance Finance Group Ltd commenced court proceedings on August 24, seeking repayment ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... China (27.7% of total imports), it has a bilateral trade surplus with Beijing (A$5,241 million as at August). With the Chinese economy dodging the pandemic-induced global recession and expected to expand by 1.8% this year and by 8.0% in 2021 (OECD Economic ...

Chief economist update: China's post-pandemic economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... bucks. China's draconian response also limited the government's spending measures. Statista.com figures show the Chinese government's fiscal stimulus packages amounted to 7% of GDP as at July 2020 - less than Japan's 21.1%, America's ...

Banks lose US$635 billion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... markets," it said. "The financial sector was among the most impacted leading to the drop in market capitalisation." Many Chinese institutions made the list including, the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (-27.65), China Construction Bank (-18.95) ...

Chief economist update: Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... declared that France was "at war", India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, compared it to Mahabharata (The Great War), and Chinese supremo, Xi Jinping called it the 'People's War'. We may not all be "marines now" as Clint Eastwood's ...