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Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... casualty as funds flowed out of the region - especially among countries with huge budget and current account deficits such as India and Indonesia. While the Fed's non-taper decision in September surprised markets, it also normalised prices back to where ...

US tapering to harm key EM countries

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... starts, Threadneedle Investments Asia and Emerging Market Equities investment specialist Douglas Cairns said. Indonesia, India, South Africa, Turkey and Brazil will be the worst affected countries, mainly because of their current account deficit. "As ...

Waiting to catch up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... continents. Infrastructure spending in Africa was rising, and falling commodity prices, if sustained, would boost countries like India and Turkey. "Though the lift to emerging markets powered by developed markets may not be as strong as in past recoveries ...

Index portfolios mask geographical risks

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... operate and what risks they expose investors to. "Colgate is a US company but if you don't have an analyst on the ground in India then you don't understand the whole story of that business," Budden explained. Budden said that the emerging trend for Australian ...

Congress dysfunction hits US bond confidence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... by a World Bank upgrade of its government effectiveness score and a drop in perceived corruption. In contrast, scores for India and South Africa have been dragged down due to the large 2014 budget deficits these nations are expected to hand down. Taiwan's ...

While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... close to joining forces with the SPD. All's well. Not in the Indian channel from the looks of it. Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Duvvuri Subbarao must be thanking his lucky stars that his term in office ended when it did - right in the midst ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... driven not by movements in financial markets or interest rates, but by whether certain events, such as an earthquake in India, a Tsunami in Japan or a storm off the east coast of New York, do or do not occur. This means that returns are unrelated to ...

Wealth Within targets SMSFs with new platform

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... managing director Denis Celata believed that platform was so strong that they were looking to take it to markets in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh via joint ventures. Wealth Within has partnered organisations such as Lonsec, Leveraged Equities ...

Asia-Pacific HNWI wealth growth triple global average

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... future, with projected HNWI wealth growth of 9.8% annually to reach an anticipated US$15.9 trillion by 2015. Hong Kong and India experienced the most significant gains in HNWI population and wealth in 2012, following steep declines in 2011. Hong Kong's ...