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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... points, or one per cent, to 10,145.72. HONG KONG - Hong Kong and Shanghai shares tumbled as dealers remained cautious ahead of China's key parliamentary session that begins this weekend. Analysts said this year's Chinese People's Political Consultative ...

FT launches second Asian real estate fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
... investment executives. "There will be challenges along the way but macroeconomic data across the region, particularly in Greater China, has shown significant concrete improvement," said Uren. "Additionally, we are seeing a new crop of local emerging ...

AXA Framlington eyes Japanese tech firms

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... is allocating more than 10 per cent of its portfolio to Japanese companies to access firms selling robotics technology to China as the country's demand for sophisticated technology grows. The qualitative fund manager's Global Opportunities fund, which ...

ING IM appoints Taurus for gold strategy

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... environment, long-term US dollar depreciation and growing demand with current limited supply due to capacity restraints," he said. "China and Russia central banks are moving to diverse their US dollar holdings and gold is a known strategy to diverse ...

Sentiment stirs bad mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... the month the survey was taken. You'd be depressed too Virginia if all these problems - plus worries about the PIGS and China - were dangled in front of your nose all in one go. But one swallow does not make a spring. This is just one month's number. ...

In the eyes of the beholder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010
... market nerves about the fate of the global economy and the financial markets. There were renewed stirrings of gloom and doom. China upped its reserve requirement again. Gloom. The PIGS are struggling under the weight of too much ingested debt, threatening ...

HOSTPLUS $1bn mandate up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2010
... the board," he said. Emerging markets has been a closely watched region by HOSTPLUS, following Sicilia's business trip to China late last year. Sicilia met with Chinese lawyers, tax professionals, regulators, investment management firms and state-owned ...

Change of heart

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... that central banks the world over were losing their attraction for the US dollar and diversifying their currency reserves. China, Russia, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks were falling in love with the yen and the euro - their value getting an extra ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... open slightly lower and trading may be subdued as traders have little direction following public holidays in the US and China. At 0740 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index contract was four points lower at 4,524 points. In ...

Tiger year ushers investors to China

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
Planners spent the last decade educating clients about China's potential - but the Year of the Tiger could herald the new boom decade for local investors. Jonathan Wu, head of distribution and operations at Premium China Funds Management, said the Year ...