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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. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... Thailand (-9.5%); the Philippines (-6.9%); Taiwan (-1.2%); India (-1.2%); and the US (-1.8%). Shipments increased to South Korea (+11.9%); Malaysia (+5.9%); and China (+4.4%). Imports shrank by 8.8% over the 12 months to November after dropping by 16.5% ...

Database unlocks global infrastructure opportunities

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... potential projects and will track projects as they progress from conception to operation. At launch Australia, China, Columbia, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand and Uruguay have joined the pipeline and will add their major infrastructure projects to the online ...

Japan still leading APAC offshore investors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... contributed $11.4 billion of the total in foreign investments, ahead of New Zealand ($5.2 billion), China ($2.5 billion) and South Korea ($2.2 billion). Justifying this, an investment manager anonymously quoted in the report said that Japan "has a very ...

IFM expands into Hong Kong

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... Tokyo. It also dovetails well with IFM's new strategy, Asia-Pacific Market Neutral, which can invest in Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. IFM chief executive Brett Himbury explained that the new Hong Kong office would "allow the firm ...