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Longevity puts focus on trauma insurance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... re-insurance groups which has just completed another major study of sickness and death incidences across the UK, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, South Africa and Singapore. This demographic and health profile change means the real risk needs of consumers ...

Platinum posts 29pc profit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... invests in listed companies' securities in the Asian region, including firms based in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan among others. The fund's portfolio typically includes 50 per cent or more net exposure to stocks ...

ITG launches Triton Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... buy side trading locally on the ASX, which covers around 3000 stocks, now all these different exchanges like Singapore, Malaysia and Japan are at your disposal to trade which they did not have before," Michael Corcoran, sales director at ITG, said. "Triton ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... more room for a fiscal stimulus to support growth. Nevertheless, some Asian economies, like Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia with exports to America equivalent to 20 per cent or more of their GDPs have greater exposure to a US downturn than China and ...

EM property posts Q4 boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... reported losses of up to 32 per cent. The quarter's biggest winner was Egypt, which returned 198 per cent trumping Chile, Malaysia, and China, all of which gained more than 50 per cent. To put in context however, Mark Wist, director at Property Investment ...

Oil prices a two-way street

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... bonds while state-owned enterprises are buying stakes in companies as diverse as General Electric Plastics, HSBC bank and Malaysia's Maxis telecommunications group. This may only be the tip of the iceberg, to mix metaphors for the desert Kingdom. The ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... emerging markets, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. "Muslim ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... 1,308 'mass affluent' investors in 13 countries across Asia, including Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and China. China and India represented the most confident countries in the region, with 70 ...

AMP names new chief

AMP appointed the head of its largest division as the successor to long-time chief executive Andrew Mohl. Craig Dunn, the current managing director of AMP Financial Services, will be the new chief executive effective 1 January next year, after seven ...

Aviva reshuffles its global deck

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
... Allan Griffiths widens his reach to include the Taiwanese and Malaysian divisions. The chief executives for Taiwan and Malaysia, Chris Knight, Ho Ming Heng, will continue in their roles, but now report to Griffiths. All regional heads report to group ...