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Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... establish sound legal systems and enforcement mechanisms for safeguarding national security in the two special administrative regions, and see that the governments of the two regions fulfil their constitutional responsibilities". The Politburo's ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... ESG Ratings." While the pandemic started in emerging markets (EM), developed markets (DM) have become the hardest hit regions, MSCI said. "Within global markets, EM saw a stronger decline during Q1 2020 than DM. Within DM, Europe was hit hardest in terms ...

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... strengthen the 'regionalisation' theme," it said. "This will lead to a focus on new investment opportunities within 'specific regions' beyond the traditional geographical perspective. "The new Silk Road is one important example of this concept, based ...

ETF demand boosts gold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... nearing all-time highs, and he believes there is a potential for it to break the record. "Anything that covers many, many regions at the same time is really where gold comes into its own," Walesby said. "If there is a more domestic issue, gold doesn't ...

BlackRock bullish on China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... grow their ownership of Chinese bonds," they said. "Macroeconomic fundaments in China are favourable relative to other regions, due in part to the containment of the virus spread, but Chinese bonds also have historically offered low correlations to other ...

deVere launches global contactless advice offering

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... distancing is currently the only tool available to fight the spread of the coronavirus. As such, more and more cities, regions and countries are going into lockdown and people into enforced or self-imposed isolation to help fight COVID-19. This means ...

Thematic investing grows threefold

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... the market share of thematic funds domiciled in North America decreased from 28% to 16% over the same period. "While all regions have experienced net inflows over the trailing five years, Europe and rest of the world have been the main beneficiaries ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... China's politburo and central bank got going. Apart from the government's drastic action at quarantining cities and regions infected by the virus, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) cut its benchmark one-year loan prime rate (LPR) by 10 basis ...

Factor investing, sustainability a perfect match

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... systematic approach to building wealth, which relies on allocating to different factors rather than to different assets or regions, i.e. to allocate to value segments, or low risk segments, or momentum segments instead. "It's a very different approach ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... this should serve as a wake-up call to all investors to ensure their portfolio is well-diversified across asset classes, regions, sectors, even currencies. Despite Green's ominous prediction, he argues that financial markets will likely bounce back ...