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Invesco shifts Asian focus to consumer demand

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... ensure we have country diversification because the way the Chinese economy has developed is at a different point to where Korea is, for example, or Indonesia or India," said Yesberg. Invesco will move the Asian consumer demand fund to the MSCI All Countries ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... were 6.1 million patents registered and 4.7 million of them or 77% came from the leading nations of Japan, the US, South Korea, Germany and China. Japan holding 2 million and the US 1.4 million, demonstrates how these two nations despite being on the ...

AIA Australia creates Asia role, new CEO

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... largest pan-Asian life insurance group in the world with branches across Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Vietnam, New Zealand and Macau. It has total assets of US$115,782 million ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
Research house Lonsec expects product providers to move towards frontier markets such as Africa and small cap Asian equities, as emerging markets become more mainstream, a senior analyst said today. Steven Sweeney, senior investment analyst for Lonsec ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... export markets are now in Asia: China accounted for 26.4% of the country's total exports in FY2010/11; Japan, 19.1%; South Korea, 9.2%; India, 6.4%; Taiwan, 3.7%. During the past fiscal year, the United States accounted for only 3.7% of Australia's total ...

Australia ahead of pack in IT wealth spend

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... India will lead the way with compound annual growth rates of 14% and 12.5% respectively, with Australia growing at 8% and Korea at 7%. Global growth in IT investments by wealth management firms is expected to rise by 6.5% by 2015. "Strong growth in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... a plan to slash the US deficit that could see the country avoid a devastating default. Tech firms, particularly in South Korea, were boosted by strong earnings reports from US giants Apple and IBM while the confident mood saw dealers shift away from ...

No change to Korea, Taiwan status: MSCI

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... not need to rebalance their investment weightings as global index provider MSCI today announced it would not upgrade South Korea and Taiwan from emerging market to developed market status. The move has been under discussion for years, but MSCI this morning ...

Korea and Taiwan may move to developed status

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... re-balance their investment weightings after tomorrow when global index provider MSCI announces whether it will upgrade South Korea and Taiwan from emerging market to developed market status. The move has been under discussion with the two Asian nations ...

China not exporting inflation: AMP/AXA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... are worried that they are exporting inflation." In 2010, rising food prices had a strong impact on China, Indonesia and Korea but have now begun to fall. The large weighting of the CPI index leaves Asia vulnerable to food supply disruptions but, argues ...