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Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... asset management arm of the global Aviva group, has tapped in a former Macquarie and Mercer senior executive to lead its Asian institutional sales. Tom Clapham is now Aviva Investors' head of institutional sales, Asia. He has held senior roles at ...

Aussie funds to access Asian markets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Both houses of Federal Parliament yesterday passed the Asia Region Funds Passport (ARFP) bill that will open up Asian markets for Australian financial services companies. The legislation was tabled in late March. Wealth management industry data manager ...

Aussie fund manager drops fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
K2 Asset Management is slashing the fees for its K2 Asian Fund, making it one of several funds to undergo fee restructures in the past year. From 2 July 2018, the K2 Asian Fund will charge a management fee of 1.36% as opposed to 1.54%. Performance fees ...

Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Forget the 2018 China GDP growth forecasts that the mammoth international institutions - International Monetary Fund (6.6%); Asian Development Bank (6.6%); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (6.7%) - or even the Chinese government's ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
... Fed chairman). I waved the white flag after reading Bloomberg's report: "Overseas funds are pulling out of six major Asian emerging equity markets at a pace unseen since the global financial crisis of 2008 - withdrawing $19 billion from India, Indonesia ...

Government opens consultation for amended CCIV regime

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said: "The CCIV vehicle will allow Australian fund managers to market to participating Asian financial markets using a well-recognised corporate structure vehicle - creating access to Asia's expanding middle and upper ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... brought the US and North Korea to talk peace, it's good for them and for the rest of us because easing tensions in the Asian region should - as the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 did - produce a peace dividend that should lift all boats. ...

Robeco wins two mandates worth $500m

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... investors don't know much about the A-share market, even if they're already exposed to China via emerging markets or Asian equity strategies. She said that once the entire market is included in the MSCI EM Index, China's weighting will eventually ...

Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... financial inclusion and broadened capital market participation in Australia and this is an attractive proposition for South-East Asian markets." The app rounds up customers' spare change from purchases and invests it in exchange-traded funds. The fully ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... in times of uncertainty to keep the Australian economy afloat. The A$/US$ sank from US$0.80 to below US$0.60 during the Asian financial crisis; it fell from around US$0.65 to US$0.49 during the US recession in 2001 and following the September 11 attacks ...