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AMP to enter Chinese pension market

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
AMP has announced it will acquire a 19.99% stake in China's largest pension company, China Life Pension Company Limited, for $240 million. This will make AMP the first foreign company to take a stake in a Chinese pension company. Part of the deal will ...

Vanguard appoints APAC senior economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
Vanguard has appointed Dr Qian Wang as its new senior economist in the Asia-Pacific region. Wang took up the position on October 27 and is based in Hong Kong. She will be part of the global Investment Strategy Group (ISG) team headed by Vanguard chief ...

QEnd is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
QE is dead! Long live QE! Well that went well, didn't it Virginia? The death of QE3 caused little stir in the financial markets - the S&P 500 index lost a teenie-weenie 0.1%; yields on 10-year US Treasuries increased by a small 0.02 percentage point ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
The suspense is chillingly killing... you could almost taste it by just looking at Wall Street's performance last night. It was decidedly undecided. Two ups and two downs. The Dow and the Nasdaq both finished 0.1% on the up while the S&P 500 and the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Australian shares look set to open lower after a flat performance on Wall Street and sharp falls on European markets following negative German business data. At 0812 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 15 points ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
Australian shares look set to open lower after a flat performance on Wall Street and sharp falls on European markets following negative German business data. At 0645 AEST on Tuesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 16 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher following solid gains on Wall Street after strong earnings reports. At 0815 AEDT on Monday, the December share price index futures contract was up 18 points at 5,422. Locally, in economic news on Monday ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
What a difference a week makes. Yes, yes, yo Virginia, in just seven winks, financial market sentiment went from "shiver me timbers, the sky is falling" to hapeee. Don't believe me? Here's Bloomberg's take last 15 October in its report headed, "World ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after gains on Wall Street overnight. At 0704 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was up 17 points points at 5,389. Wall Street stocks rose more than one per cent following ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
"Having money isn't everything, not having it is." - Kanye West Nah Virginia, at my (middle) age, I'm not one who enjoys hip hop, techno, punk, goth or beats... let alone rap. But yankee-doodle-dandy rapper Kanye's words aptly describe the fall and ...