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Bitcoin returns 147%, outshines bull market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... renewed interest will prompt Treasury to accelerate the drafting of crypto regulations in Australia." Investors in gold and China equities were also rewarded with strong returns of 27.2% and 27.1% respectively. US small caps turned in 23.3%, while Japanese ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... "expensive" US equities, but ultimately it sees more value in the latter. "We have noted in our paper that we also like China and South Korea... [as] US equities are on the expensive side," she added. "There are enough opportunities [outside the US] ...

MetLife to acquire PineBridge Investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
... a multi-year earnout; however, it excludes PineBridge's private equity funds group business and its joint venture in China. MetLife has made asset management growth a foremost priority as part of its new five-year strategy, which was unveiled in ...

Court finds CFD issuers engaged in 'unconscionable conduct'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 DEC 2024
... services licence (AFSL) were provided "efficiently, honestly and fairly", where it offered those services to customers in China. The court determined that it knew, or ought to have reasonably known, that those customers were likely be contravening Chinese ...

Australia home to 43 billionaires: UBS

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024
... Ambitions Report found the upward trend in the number of billionaires in Australia follows the trajectory of the APAC region. China hosts the highest number of billionaires at 427, a reduction of 93 from the year prior. India grew its billionaire population ...

Eyes on gaming, Chinese tech in 2025: Orbis

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
... quite like this; that is the position we exited," he noted. "That's the closest we have come to the EV landscape in China..."

Funds are 'getting back to basics', says report

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024
... and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority have established a local presence in India this year. In contrast, no funds selected China, down from 23% last year, as geopolitical risks and economic challenges have led many funds to reduce their investments in the ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... funding for infrastructure and core services. Geopolitical pressures, meanwhile, particularly the rivalry between the US and China, are shifting globalisation from a unified system to more fragmented blocks. Efforts by both powers to diversify supply ...

2025 economic outlook 'threatening': AMP

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... could be amplified as Trump ramps up tariffs & if Chinese policy stimulus remains modest. There are signs of bottoming in China's property market though." Geopolitical risks remain high, Oliver said, as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are expected ...

Dividends to be down in FY25: Equity Trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024
... is simply that iron ore prices have continued to retract from previous cyclical highs, largely due to lower demand from China for the reasons referenced earlier," Thompson said. "The ASX200 index concentration in banks and resources means that earnings-per-share ...