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Pinnacle boutique launches Cayman fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... exchange, equity market dispersion, and temporary dislocations caused by the dominance of retail flows are combining to make Asian markets increasingly attractive for Reminiscent, at a time when many hedge fund allocators are underweight the region," ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... COVID-19, they argued, with companies establishing additional production inputs and outputs in varied suppliers and countries. Asian countries have fared significantly better than their emerging market counterparts, they said, as they were on a faster ...

Pendal appoints new head of HNW distribution

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... London and then on the institutional equity sales desk. Between 2006 and 2014, he was head of the Australian and then Pan Asian equities desks for JPMorgan in Europe before becoming head of distribution in Seoul where he ran the equities trading and ...

ANZ profits halve, dividend deferred

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... of $1.674 billion, including about $1 billion in extra credit reserves, is largely to blame. Valuations of investments in Asian associates was impaired by $815 million, ANZ said. Cash profits also took a hit, down 60% on 1H19, coming in at $1.41 billion. ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... in 28 years. China's double-digit GDP growth (at the time) shielded Australia from the Great Recession of 2008/09 and the Asian financial crisis a decade earlier. China's slow early return to business as usual offers hope that Australia may be able to ...

BlackRock lead portfolio manager departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
BlackRock's lead portfolio manager for many Asian equities strategies has left for a role at a local boutique manager. Andrew Swan, who was based in Hong Kong, joined BlackRock in 2011 and was most recently the head of BlackRock's Asia and global emerging ...

US faces deepest recession on record

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020
... class strategist Marija Veitmane believes US stocks will continue to outperform. "[The] US is weeks behind many European and Asian countries in terms of fighting the coronavirus outbreak," she said. "It virtually guarantees horrific infections rate and ...

Lonsec recommends PCFM fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... PCFM's "long heritage as a Chinese equity specialist". "Portfolio manager Renee Hung is considered to be an experienced Asian equity investor, who has established a pleasing track record in managing the Fund over an extended period," Lonsec pointed out. ...

Chief economist update: AUD depreciation no cure for coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... depreciation in shielding the domestic economy from worries galore. The AUD/US sank from US$0.80 to below US$60 during the Asian financial crisis in 1997, that was quickly followed by the Russian debt default and the collapse of Long-term Capital Management ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... far in the COVID-19 sell-off the benchmark has fallen 30%. Yet, in its latest equities report, Morningstar found that the Asian and emerging market bourses had performed surprisingly better than their developed counterparts during the COVID-19 sell-off. ...