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Schroders move $25bn to single platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... final country to be moved onto the business's Singapore-based investment management system with Hong Kong, Japan and Indonesia migrated onto Dimension in 2009. Jason Wood, head of Asia Pacific IT, Schroders said the expansion rate of Australian businesses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
The Australian market is expected to open lower on Tuesday, following falls on Wall Street in both commodities and equities. On the ASX 24 at 0735 AEST, the June share price index futures contract was 16 points lower at 4,653. In economics news on Tuesday ...

Fin services lend weight to East Timor education

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
A new foundation set up by a financial planning firm has given a group of young East Timorese a new lease of life by giving them access to what many in the western world take for granted: education. Last Saturday, more than 20 financial services providers ...

New index tracks second-tier emerging markets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
S&P Indices has launched a new index covering second-tier emerging markets Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey and South Africa. The CIVETS 60 index comprises of ten stocks from each country. Each company must have a market capitalisation of ...

Malaysia pioneers Islamic Finance framework

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... Muslims worldwide this week celebrating the prophet Mohamed's birthday, making it a public holiday in both Malaysia and Indonesia. Malaysia's courting of the Islamic investment world follows the move last year of their $350 billion Malaysia bourse to ...

Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... too. The Indian government announced that it expects the economy to expand by 8.6 per cent in the year ending 31 March. Indonesia is too. Real GDP growth quickened to 6.1 per cent in 2010 from 4.5 per cent in the previous year. Indonesia received an ...

Indonesia looking to deepen its capital markets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... Indonesian equities and 30 per cent of their government bonds. Last year, 70 per cent of the $20 billion that was invested in Indonesia was foreign sourced. While Indonesia is at last beginning to receive investor attention, as investors who traditionally ...

JBWere targets Asian HNWs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... private wealth management. Ng, Moo and Lumy come from Asian backgrounds and are fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa Indonesia and related dialects. Matt Stovold, head of advice at JBWere, said in a statement that the firm recognises the growing importance ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... by the most in 22 months after the central bank set the weakest reference rate for the currency since September. Bank Indonesia will "guard" the rupiah at its "fundamental" level of 8,900 to 9,300 against the dollar and buy foreign currencies to limit ...

Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... China's wealth is 35 per cent greater than that of France (US$12.1 trillion), the wealthiest country in Europe. Meanwhile, Indonesia's average wealth per adult grew the fastest in the region, rising five-fold to US$1.8 trillion in a decade. Not to be ...