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University investment portfolio includes tobacco and beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... international shareholdings in emerging markets, British American Tobacco places second and accounts for 2.92% of the subdivision. Chinese media company Tencent Holdings is number one at 2.99%. At number four is Brazilian brewer and major PepsiCo distributor ...

So bad it could only be good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... both China's internal and external dynamics are shot. The sharp drop in imports validates slowing domestic demand in the Chinese economy. Expect further weakness in Beijing's foreign purchases of goods and services as the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) ...

Yuan stable (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... China's (PBOC) was engaging in "beggar thy neighbour" policy when it devalued the yuan - 3.4% in total - last month. The Chinese central bank's action shocked investors everywhere. The main reason being that the world's biggest economy might be in really ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... surprise - it wasn't. The official China PMI reading of 49.7 for August was exactly as markets expected. Besides the slowing Chinese economy is old news... it's a known known. Almost every individual on planet earth has speculated, talked and warned ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Australia's own exposure to Asia? China is Australia's main trading partner and some Australian companies depend so much on Chinese demand that some investors use Australia as a proxy to invest in Asia. "We're attached as a beta to China," State Street ...

It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... with QE4". Pete also backed up what I've been typing all along in his interview. "The media is blaming this on China. The Chinese market is going down for the same reason that the US market is going down. It's not that China is causing our market to ...

China trade deal must not be delayed: FSC

ANDREW BRAGG, DIRECTOR OF POLICY, FINANCIAL SERVICES COUNCIL  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... This is four times the size of our superannuation system. By 2030, there will be a staggering one billion middle class Chinese. This middle class will increasingly demand financial services and investment opportunities beyond China's borders. Foreign ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... of origin could lead them to pull funds out of Australia without warning, perhaps to cover margin calls in a tumbling Chinese stock market, as was seen in July. The consequences for Australia could be disastrous. The latest edition of FInancial Standard ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... raised some concerns." And this was before the People's Bank of China's (PBOC) devaluation of the yuan. "While the recent Chinese stock market decline seemed to have had limited implications to date for the growth outlook in China, several participants ...

Australia: which way now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
... previously forecast". Although the RBA acknowledged the medium term risk of the uncertainty caused by the "recent volatility in Chinese equity markets" and the "uncertainties arising from the expected start of monetary policy tightening in the United ...