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Greece, China damage global hedge fund returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... uncertainty over Greece's ability to pay its creditors and stay in the Eurozone. Despite losses in these key regions, Japanese and Latin American hedge funds emerged as top performer in June and they were up 0.39% and 0.29% respectively. Even if the ...

AustralianSuper posts double digit returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... investment option were influenced by strong returns from property and infrastructure; reasonable returns from US, European and Japanese equity markets boosted by the strength of foreign currencies against the Australian dollar; and modest returns on ...

Greek crisis drives Australian market down

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... investors were experiencing a crisis of confidence and were fleeing to safe-haven alternatives such as the US dollar, Japanese yen and gold. On Sunday, Greece prime minister Alexis Tsipras announced that Greek banks would remain shut indefinitely and ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... to tick up against the US dollar and yen as traders await the outcome of policy meetings at the US Federal Reserve and Japanese central bank. Tokyo on Tuesday lost 0.64 per cent, or 129.85 points, to close at 20,257.94 and Seoul fell 0.67 per cent, or ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... HONG KONG - The euro retreated in Asia on concerns about Greece's bailout reform talks after the IMF walked out, while Japanese stocks ended higher thanks to a pick-up in the dollar against the yen. Regional investors were given another positive lead ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... yen's rebounded and is currently at A¥122.86 - a 2.4% appreciation - after BOJ governor Haruhiko Kuroda told the Diet - Japanese Parliament - that, "The yen is unlikely to weaken further in real effective terms if you think with common sense, given ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... probably not weaken further. The remarks from Haruhiko Kuroda reversed Wednesday morning gains in the US dollar against the Japanese currency, fuelled by two US reports that gave the Federal Reserve more ammunition to raise interest rates. With US markets ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... points, to 2,063.16. Hong Kong, however, rose 0.69 per cent, or 190.75 points to close at 27,657.47. Dealers moved out of Japanese equities for a second day after the Nikkei posted its 12th straight session of gains on Monday - its longest rally since ...

TAL sees growth in profits and payouts

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
Financial results from TAL's Japanese parent, Dai-Ichi Life, reveal Australia's biggest life insurer has seen a 12% rise in underlying profit to $146.6 million in the year ended 31 March 2015. Premium income rose 21% to $2.2 billion and claims payouts ...

Damned lies and (actual) stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... to be but the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continues to repeat its optimistic assessment over the outlook of its economy. The Japanese central bank would meet again later this week. Although expectations are mounting that it would have to expand its QE one day ...