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High net worth assets grow to $1.4 trillion

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... interest in global equities, with half of all HNW investors having exposure to foreign markets, particularly in North America. "However," Helmes added, "when you look at what proportion of total HNW assets is invested in overseas markets it is only 6 ...

QBE invests in Invesco property fund

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
QBE Insurance Group (QBE) has invested into Invesco's North American Core Direct Property Fund, which invests exclusively in North American direct property assets. While Invesco would not reveal the amount of the investment, a spokesperson said that ...

AXA IM to expand outside of Europe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
AXA Investment Managers is seeking to expand its presence outside of Europe, with plans to strengthen its footprint in Asia, including Australia and Japan, and the Americas. AXA IM former head of consultant relations Tim Gardener will head up a new ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... running high till then. What happens after the August 2014 peak in Fed asset holdings is anybody's guess. Hopefully by then, America's economic growth is stronger and more sustainable, giving US equities a fresh reason - a more fundamental reason -- ...

No guarantee

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... yuan (US$14.7 mil) in interest due at the end of last week. The negative spin could not be anymore negative than Bank of America-Merrill Lynch strategist David Cui's assessment that this "could be China's Bear Stearns moment" - the first in many domestic ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... hereon - just in case - there's no denying that the flow of statistics have been largely on the positive side of late. In America, economic reports for February confirmed the "frozen by the polar vortex" story. Markit Economics' US manufacturing purchasing ...

Vale Gwen Fletcher

JULIE BENNETT  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Sydney nursing home on Friday 28 February. Gwen played a vital role in extending the financial planning profession beyond America's shores to Australia. It was also Gwen who took the first step towards globalisation of the profession and thanks to her ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... Canada has already opted out of the G-8 summit. Putin's probably been emboldened by his not so small victory in preventing America from militarily intervening in Syria. And long-term ally China is now the second biggest economy in the world. And as Frederick ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... 2005, China's development bank and other institutions have spent an estimated $75bn on financial investments in South America, said Boston University professor Kevin Gallagher. This is, he points out, "more [investment] than the World Bank, US Export ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat following weak overseas leads from the US. Gains in heavyweight Australian mining stocks have been offset by falls in Telstra - which has gone ex-dividend - and fellow large companies Woodside Petroleum and ...