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AMP appoints international MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... Asia Pacific, where he was responsible for $40 billion in assets under management and successfully set up joint ventures in China and India. Prior to this he was director, private wealth management at Deutsche Asset Management in Australia. As chief ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
... contraction forecast in the May Budget. This is because Australia is fortunate enough to sit right next to industrialising China. According to RBA Governor Glen Stevens, "Growth in China has been very strong, which is having a significant impact on other ...

HSBC takes over local distribution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
HSBC has dropped its local funds distribution arrangement for its Asia and China investment strategies with Challenger this week in favour of distributing the funds itself. Charles Genocchio, head of global investments at HSBC in Australia, said Challenger ...

Joined at the hip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... has been boosted by the rally in commodity prices. But unlike Australia - whose major trading partner is now rebounding China - Canada's economy is closely tied with that of the United States. Americans buy around 80 per cent of Canada's output of goods ...

Macquarie buys Canadian dealer

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2009
... Delaware Investments and Fox-Pitt Kelton Cochran Caronia Waller. Macquarie has also been busy signing joint ventures in China and the Middle East through its Sino-Australian International Trust Company and Gulf Finance House deals.

Premium appoints Queensland specialist

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Premium China Funds Management has hired George Fattal as Asia investment specialist (Queensland). Fattal will primarily look after the Queensland financial planning market. He will be liaising with both dealer group head offices based there as well ...

Pushing on a string

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009

What China wants China gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2009
... although guaranteed would be more accurate - growth of 8.0 per cent this year. It's on its way. Recent reports show that China is set to beat this growth forecast this year. Chinese real GDP expanded by 8.9 per cent in the year to the third quarter ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... bust's 'second coming' won't come for a while yet. The global economy has not yet fired on all cylinders. While Australia, China, a major chunk of Asia and the Middle East have their engines already cranked up, the US and Europe and Japan continue to ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
China may be the darling of economic groupies, India the superpower in waiting, but realisation is growing that Indonesia may be their rocket fuel. Regional analysts have been so taken with the possibility that editorials around Asia are now spruiking ...