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Van Eck lists first A-shares ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... (CETF) tracks China's CSI 300 Index which represents the largest and most liquid shares listed on the two stock exchanges in China's mainland, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The ETF has been launched as China transitions to a consumption-based economy and before ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... funds of life insurance corporations accounted for about 70% of AUM. A third paper, Potential Growth and Rebalancing in China, suggests much of China's recent slowing is probably structural rather than cyclical in nature. "A substantive reform program ...

Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... economic and social well-being," Mann said. Earlier this week Fitch Ratings said a continued slowdown and rebalancing in China, high corporate and household leverage in several economies, and looming US rate rises create a potentially challenging risk ...

China's surging funds management market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... attracting a lot of interest from exchange traded funds and investors attracted to the product class. Stock market fever in China is meanwhile propelling its asset management industry which is now estimated at about US$1 trillion. Combined with the Hong ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... aggressive a move for the housing market," he added. This all means that Australia "is going to have to wear this slowdown in China and you're not going to be able to escape through lower interest rates." This scenario "highlights how fragile we're currently ...

China infrastructure push to boost Australia exports

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... highlighted that the Chinese government is likely to funnel money to the China Development Bank to support infrastructure works in China and abroad. These initiatives could "boost countries supplying infrastructure-related goods, such as Australia, Indonesia ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... banks," Russell Investments chief executive for Asia Pacific Pete Gunning said. "With the chances of a prolonged downturn in China's steel consumption and volatility in bank stocks, investors are becoming skittish - with good reason." Speaking about ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... too fast or ends in a hard landing, Tribeca Investment Partners portfolio manager Sean Fenton said. Fenton alerted that in China "there are real risks there that the slowdown in growth becomes a hard landing. That has pretty serious consequences for ...

Market to open higher after Wall Street record high

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... most of the major banks, and the big miners found support from investors betting on further economic stimulus measures in China. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index added 52 points, or 0.93 per cent, to 5,662.3 points, and the broader All Ordinaries index ...

Bargain hunters push shares higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
Bargain hunters have pushed the share market higher as investors bet on further stimulus measures in China. Options XPress analyst Ben Le Brun said all sectors were performing strongly. "Buyers are coming in to support these levels,"A Le Brun said. ...