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O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... surprise of surprises, its ally and next-door neighbour, Canada. Mexico, I could understand or even China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany or Switzerland - for these are the countries the US Treasury Department (in its recent semi-annual report) ...

ANZ sells off retail Vietnam business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
ANZ entered into an agreement to sell its Vietnamese retail business to an NYSE-listed South Korean group. Shinhan Bank Vietnam, owned by Shinhan Financial Group, will become the new owner of ANZ's retail presence while the latter focuses on its institutional ...

IFM Investors and Samsung partner for infrastructure fund

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An Australian institutional investment manager is partnering with Korea-based Samsung Asset Management to form a global infrastructure debt fund. The US$480 million fund will be jointly managed by IFM Investors and Samsung Asset Management to invest ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
Threats and counter threats are coming in fast between the United States and North Korea suggesting that neither side is backing down from a full-scale armed (nuclear or conventional) confrontation. On his visit to Seoul, US vice-president Mike Pence ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... on Wall Street. Neither did Kim Jung-on's latest missile testing. As far as the moneymen are concerned, Syria and North Korea are just specks - irritating ones at that - in the global economy. Specks, no one would miss should one, or both, be vapourised ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... was one with an upward bias despite geo-political tremors - chemical attack in Syria and nuclear missile testing in North Korea - and doubts over Trump-flation. This came as no surprise for Wall Streeters saw the latest updates on the US economy... and ...

Korea scopes out Aussie asset management market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... roundtable discussion on what the new cross border trade initiatives could mean, and educated participants on developments in Korea's market, with FSC chair Geoff Lloyd highlighting the opportunity for collaboration on product design. Likewise, FSC chief ...

QIC answers global infrastructure demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... diversified alternatives." QGIF has received strong support from Australasian investors (including from China, Japan and Korea), as well as investors from the United States and Europe.

South Korean pension fund buys Brisbane property

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... the Asia-Pacific region after it acquired Sydney-based Eureka in September last year and opened an office in Seoul, South Korea in 2015. AXA Investment Managers Real Assets' global head of Asia, Frank Khoo said: "With the growing appetite for international ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... America as their major export market. China's exports to the US accounts for 18% of its overall exports; Japan, 20%; South Korea, 13%; and India and New Zealand, 12% each. Trump's isolationist policies would certainly affect them more than Australia. ...