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Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... GDP," said Urquhart. "In the past decade, for example, we saw China's GDP grow from US$1,000 to US$4,000, or expand four times over. "Over the same period, we saw car sales in China grow from one million a year to 17 million vehicles a year, or by 17 ...

ASMA partners with OneVue for platform launch

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... said self-funded retirees currently control over $430 billion in assets nation wide and the industry needs to move with the times if it wants to support this market and trigger more advice opportunities as and when required. OneVue chief executive Connie ...

Asian private equity grows rapidly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... global private equity, according to a McKinsey & Company private equity in the Asia-Pacific report. In the pre-GFC boom times of 2007 Asia's share of the global private equity market was 11% though the global market was then estimated at $814 billion ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... in April. Although it indicates that America's service sector continued to expand last month, the 2.5 point drop is five times market expectations for only a 0.5-point dip. More relevant, the employment component of the index dropped to 54.2 -- the weakest ...

There's the good news and there's the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... authorities on red alert and the law of self-preservation says that they will do something - just as they did in the past many times over." And now it's turning out just as it was written. Our BFF Ben just reminded us yesterday. And so did the European ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... economy. Long gone Johnny explained how this is not good for the economy many, many moons ago. The Paradox states that during times of recession, if everyone saves instead of spending, aggregate demand falls. This will lower aggregate savings, lower ...

Instreet launches new structured product

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... delivering quarterly fixed income payments at 11% a year. Instreet managing director, George Lucas said that the Financial Times reported recently about the growth in popularity of structured products in the independent financial advice sector following ...

Dark pools shine as ASX trade size falls

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... institutional members live in the Australian market, recorded an average trade size of $1.2 million for quarter 1, approximately 170 times more than the average ASX trade size which has been consistently declining. "Our average trade size has remained ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring ...

CBA commits to local jobs

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... roles no longer being required and can and has resulted in some redundancies. "That happens in good organisations in good times and in bad. But that is a different approach from setting targets in the short term and managing towards them." Narev also ...