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Three ETFs axed by Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... ETFs and a BetaShares product next month. From March 20, it will no longer publish qualitative research on iShares MSCI Japan (IJP), iShares China Large-Cap (IZZ) and BetaShares Australian Top 20 Equity Yield Maximiser (YMAX). It will also remove the ...

GAM profits fall 92%, management team overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... overall negative outflows from the firm, there were some positive signs with net-new money in markets such as Australia, Japan and the Middle East," Sanderson said.

Ellerston LIC chair resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... portfolio of large caps. Performance has been above benchmark for recent periods. It delivered 8.55% above the MSCI Asia ex Japan (AUD), to the year ending December. Since inception returns were 0.71% under the benchmark.

Global index creates new ESG role

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... increasingly dynamic market." The news comes after FTSE Russell recently expanded its sustainable investment analysis in China and Japan, with around 800 China A securities now included in sustainable investment analysis.

Chief economist update: Japan fails to learn from history (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana... and repeat the past, Japan did. Preliminary estimates show that the economy contracted by 1.6% in the last quarter of 2019 following a 0.1% growth (if you could call ...

T. Rowe Price shutters local fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... and a well-regarded portfolio manager were not enough to save the local version of T. Rowe Price's Asian equities ex Japan fund, which is shutting after outflows. The T. Rowe Price Asia ex-Japan fund is managed by Hong Kong-based Anh Lu and invests ...

Analyst views on ESG swing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... said ESG was on the rise in 2018, that number dropped slightly to 57% in 2019 but has since shot up to 91%. In Europe and Japan 100% of analysts say ESG is on the rise among companies they cover. While in Europe those numbers have steadily increased ...

SSGA slashes ETF fee

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... ETF distribution for Asia Pacific, which sees her assume responsibility for key financial markets including Hong Kong and Japan, where institutional interest in ETFs is high relative to Australia.

SSGA promotes local SPDR boss

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... as head of SPDR ETF Asia Pacific distribution, in a move that will see Victor assume responsibility of the Hong Kong and Japan financial markets where ETF growth is booming, according to SSGA. Victor joined SSGA in 2017 as head of SPDR ETFs in Australia ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... of the largest pension markets in the world as part of the P7 (the seven largest markets for pension assets) with Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US. The P7 accounts for 92% of the US$46.7 trillion in assets in the 22 largest ...