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Australia a priority for HSBC despite job cuts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
HSBC said Australia is a priority market, but has not confirmed if the decision to cut 25,000 jobs globally will affect the business down under. The group confirmed that it wants to reduce its risk weighted assets by 25%. To achieve that, it will sell ...

India multi asset fund to list on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
India Fund Limited has launched an initial public offering (IPO) with plans to list on the ASX as a listed investment company (LIC). The fund is looking to raise up to $100 million with a minimum subscription of $35 million and has Morgans as its lead ...

Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey presented a budget he said focuses on Australian citizens' and businesses' opportunity to "have a go," despite hardening economic conditions. Hockey presented his 2015 budget as "the government's plan to strengthen our nation's ...

China exposure best through Australia: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
BlackRock's main source of exposure to Chinese fixed income comes from investing in Australian government bonds, deputy chief investment officer of fundamental fixed income Scott Thiel said. Speaking to an audience of advisers and professional investors ...

Asian equities on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... commodity prices, businesses adapting to new technology and major business and economic reforms in major players like China and India - are making Lu more "optimistic" about investing there. Expanding on T. Rowe Price's investment philosophy in Asia ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
When India Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia in November 2014, he sparked such enthusiasm among politicians and citizens that for a few days all we could see in the media was his friendly, bearded smile. Indian citizens in Australia were ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
The latest fixed income market outlook from BlackRock's Rick Rieder poses the interesting question of whether there are some assets in a portfolio which are there for the long term and others which have a place for a short time, depending on opportunities ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Investment professionals depressed over future employment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Australian investment professionals are among the most pessimistic in the world when it comes to expectations of future employment, with nearly a quarter saying that the situation is getting worse, the CFA Institute found. The 2015 Global Market Sentiment ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... this doesn't track those that have already double-dipped like the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Competitive devaluation is a zero sum game... unless, of course, we find life on the moon, on mars or another planet ...