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Chief economist update: Trade war and peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... week of June 11-15 ended with another bombshell with Trump giving the go-ahead to slap tariffs on US$50 billion worth of Chinese imports and warning of more if China retaliates. Well, China did. It announced a retaliatory 25% tariff on US$50 billion ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into its benchmark MSCI Emerging Markets Index, MSCI All Country World Index and MSCI China Index - a culmination ...

Chief economist update: Capex and credit and the trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... Italy's political crisis was reaching boiling point, the US announced that it would slap tariffs on US$50 billion of Chinese imports soon after June 15. That's still two weeks away and the unpredictable Trump could always announce something unpredictable. ...

Robeco wins two mandates worth $500m

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... market will push China's weight in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index up to 40.8%. Discussing the implications, Robeco Chinese equities portfolio manager Victoria Mio said the $8.8 trillion China A-share market accounts for 71% of the market capitalisation ...

CBA sells interests in Chinese insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
Commonwealth Bank has offloaded its stake in a Chinese life insurance joint venture for $668 million. CBA sold its 37.5% equity interest in BoComm Life Insurance to Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo as per a condition of the bank's sale of its Australian ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... the negotiating table are making the right noises, reports that they failed to reach consensus on providing relief to Chinese telecom ZTE only ignited suspicion on whether or not a substantial trade agreement could be reached. More so, given that the ...

Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... China. But the tide has (or appears to have) turned. It turned after Trump announced on Twitter that, "ZTE, the large Chinese phone company, buys a big percentage of individual parts from US companies. This is also reflective of the larger trade deal ...

Tech is all upside for insurance: HSBC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
... vehicle telematics to assist with pricing insurance products. Additionally, the report underlined the willingness of the Chinese market in adopting these new ways of doing business - stating a higher on-line take up rate could lead to lower customer ...

S&P reaffirms Sirtex after new offer from Chinese manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... after its US takeover has been postponed in light of a new offer. Sirtex entered into a trading halt and then announced Chinese alternatives manager, CDH Investments, had made an offer to acquire 100% of the company at a price of $33.60 per share, subject ...