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Malaysia drives growth in Shariah funds

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... which saw assets grow by 92.1% to IDR0.7 trillion ($70.6 million). Despite this growth however, Cerulli said for Southeast Asian managers, penetrating the Shariah distribution landscape requires significant amounts of patience and resources, and promoting ...

Insurance giant appoints Australian underwriter to Asia role

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... Pacific and Far East - environmental risk Kane Bennett. He will oversee Chubb's environmental risk portfolio across the whole Asian region. Prior to Chubb, McCauley was an environmental consultant at contaminated land consulting company JBS&G, where ...

Investors looking to real estate over infrastructure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2016
Asian sovereign investors have increased their allocations to real estate ahead of infrastructure as investors push to meet diversification and absolute return objectives, according to Invesco's latest Global Sovereign Asset Management Study. While ...

Cashwerkz offers paperwork relief

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... attracted organisations such as NAB, Westpac, Macquarie and St George to the platform and will be looking to expand into Asian and European markets in the future. "With cash products there is massive potential not only in Australia - with its large reserves ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... Thusitha de Silva said. "Costs come from salaries that are high relative to those that are paid in other countries in the Asian region, high personal and corporate taxes, and an industrial relations regime that makes it difficult to adjust staffing in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... is higher than market expectations for annual growth of 6.6% and takes the growth rate of Philippine GDP faster than most Asian countries. Over the same period, China's economy expanded by 6.7%; Vietnam by 5.5%, Indonesia by 4.9%, Malaysia by 4.2% and ...

Mirae backs Asian consumers

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
A global asset manager has made it clear they will back the Asian consumer market as part of its ongoing equities strategy in the region. During a recent trip to Australia, Mirae Asset Global Investments' head for Indian equity funds, Rahul Chadha ...

Perpetual appoints exec director, director resigns

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... in February to pursue a non-executive career. Gordon currently chairs the Group Investment Committee of FWD Group, a pan Asian life insurance company based in Hong Kong. He is also a director of Total Risk Management, a company which is part of the Russell ...

QIC makes first agribusiness acquisition

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... agriculture acquisition since announcing its agribusiness strategy and intention to grow the "beef industry to meet new Asian demand" at the Northern Queensland Economic Summit in late 2015. NAP is one of Australia's largest agricultural enterprises ...

AMP Capital adds to AGF Advisory Committee

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... with him more than 30 years' experience in funds management, stock broking and consulting, including six years' managing Asian equity investments. He has held a number of senior management and investment positions in firms across South East Asia and ...