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Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... packages, such as rail stocks Vossloh and Alstom; and those that are geared up for a "carbon economy", such as Shaw Group and China High Speed Transmission. And with a portfolio tailored around stock selection rather than the index, Griffin said the ...

ING IM backs Asian bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... Management says they are increasingly a constant factor in the portfolio." The report also found Asian countries, particularly China and India, are very well positioned to ride out this current crisis and continue to grow. Healthy financial sectors and ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... core portfolio strategy is the reason why the fund was one of the first two foreign fund managers that won mandates from China's national pension fund back in late 2005 (the other was T. Rowe Price). Garvy said that given the current markets, investors ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette smoking where 56 per cent of males still regularly smoke. ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... 2008 when cash was buying 7.25 per cent and when it was generally regarded that the Australian economy - largely because of China - would be immuned from the gathering global recession (at the time). Remember the decoupling theory? This ultimately proved ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... closed on Monday on a national holiday. HONG KONG - Hong Kong share prices closed 5.54 per cent higher on Monday, as gains in China stocks boosted hopes of a recovery in the mainland economy. The benchmark Hang Seng Index gained 860.06 points to close ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... that showed the return of the American consumer in the March quarter. And before this, strengthening economic indicators in China. Well yes, we know of this already. However, yesterday's releases showed that Japan too is responding to these improvements ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... updates. Retailer Westfield Group releases a first quarter trading update. Minara Resources Ltd, Buderim Ginger Ltd and China West International Holdings Ltd hold annual general meetings. Pan Palladium Ltd, Queensland Mining Corp Ltd, Oil Basins Ltd ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... disease if taken within the first 48 hours, and incidents are reported almost immediately (during the SARS outbreak in 2003, China's Ministry of Health tried to conceal reported cases in the country). Like SARS and many others before it, the swine flu ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... rose 15.97 points, or 0.18 per cent, to 8,727.3. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares lost 2.67 per cent as a sell-off in mainland China stocks and profit-taking erased the day's earlier gains. The Hang Seng Index ended down 407.44 points at 14,878.45. WELLINGTON ...