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Feds still in a hole at the Jackson

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... would maintain the 7% growth target that the Politburo commands. History is with me on this. China's been bashed so many times - since 2010 if memory serves me right - back in 2010 it was bashed with the social unrest stick if growth falls below 8% (frim ...

SMAs ideal for low-touch clients

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... corporate actions." Presenting the report in Sydney, he added that the desire for professional investment management rose in times of increased market volatility, and that "personal investors" tended to endanger their equity portfolios by getting "too ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... search engine Baidu. Clifford notes that all of these are "large businesses, quite sophisticated and with revenue sizes three times the size of some of their international counterparts." He adds that all of these businesses reflect Platinum's view that ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
Custodians are on track reduce settlement times from three days to two days in time for the official regime change in March 2016. Firms are gearing up to start testing their readiness for the new T+2 Settlement regime in October. "Reducing settlement ...

A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... below (log scales) shows that it's the Australian dollar's depreciation that has shielded the Australian economy during times of extreme fear (the VIX index is inverted in the chart). The A$/US$ sank from US$0.80 to below US$60 during the Asian financial ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... opportunity is clear and immediate. Today, China has a household savings pool of about US$8 trillion and growing. This is four times the size of our superannuation system. By 2030, there will be a staggering one billion middle class Chinese. This middle ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... Investment Fund Managers Directive have heightened the regulatory environment that funds are facing. A recent Financial Times investigation found that European institutional investors had pulled a net $8.2 billion (US$6.8 billion) from hedge funds since ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... stock market, any stock market, chances are it is now in correction territory - Dow, Stoxx 600, FTSE-100, All Ords, Strait Times, Jakarta Composite, Taiex, KLCI, PSEi - or in a bear market -- Hang Seng - or highly volatile - Shanghai Composite - or down ...

PROFILE: SSGA head of Investment Solutions Group Mark Wills

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... years as a student: "I used to despair because I didn't think what I was studying was useful. Now, ironically, multiple times a month there will be something from Econ 301 that I will remember; which is good. I think it takes you time to figure out how ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... models from renowned fund managers or research houses to build their own diversified portfolios," he said. "Most of the times, they don't take it to the letter; they take the lead from the model portfolio and then adjust it to reflect their preference ...