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Banks lose US$635 billion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
... Construction Bank (-18.95) and the Agricultural Bank of China (-23.31%). Japanese banks also made a heavy presence with the Japan Post Bank (-19.18%), Mizuho Financial Group (-11.33%) and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (-20.59%). Together, the total ...

Chief economist update: Prime Minister Suga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
Japan has a new prime minister. Yoshihide Suga is his name. Suga will officially be Prime Minister following a parliamentary vote on September 16 after being elected President of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) two days earlier. Prime Minister ...

Brace for 5% returns from global stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... even in the low-interest rate environment. It expects five-year returns from developed markets to range from 3.8% p.a. for Japan to 5.8% p.a. for Australia, all of which are below historical averages it said. "A mix of elevated valuations, slow global ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... outperformed since the beginning of the year, returning 17.87%. However, China-focused funds returned only 1.64% in August. Asia ex-Japan strategies, in comparison, returned 3.85% and 3.86%, respectively. "With continued strong results, China-focused ...

Aussie super funds climb ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... (221), SuperSA (226), GESB (227), and VicSuper (270). Marking 17 years on top, the Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan ranked first with $2.2 trillion in AUM. It's a whopping 46% larger than the second ranked Government Pension Fund of Norway ...

Australia most active region in Q2: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... said. Interestingly, the research house found that the largest driver of inflows in the second quarter was allocations into Japan passive equity strategies. Redemptions from APAC managers were also mainly from Japan-focused strategies, across both equity ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
While we, Australians all, continue to shudder at the economy's first recession in 29-years, our nation - to use Old Blue Eyes' song - remains "Top of the list, King of the hill, A number one..." It may not be Einstein's "relativity theory" ...

BNY Mellon expands to Asia Pacific

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... made possible by acquiring a Securities Investment Consulting Enterprise (SICE) business licence. Head of Asia Pacific ex Japan Doni Shamsuddin commented the SICE approval is an important part of BNY's expansion plan in greater China. "Our focus continues ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cuts capex

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
Australian private new capital expenditure (capex) usually commands attention before and during its release for it provides an indication of domestic firms' optimism towards future growth as well as, itself, being a driving component of that growth. ...

Vanguard leaves Hong Kong, Japan for Shanghai

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
Vanguard has announced it is exiting its exchange traded fund (ETF) businesses from Hong Kong and Japan to focus on retail clients in mainland China as the two offshore operations did not have "significant scale". The ETF provider said in a statement ...