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Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... correlation between the Japanese yen and the Nikkei-225 index makes the 4.8% drop in the Japan's benchmark equity market index hardly surprising - one that has taken down its 2019 return from a high of 11.5% in April this year to a meagre 3.3% (still ...

Active, passive investing continues to confuse: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2019
... the ability to take advantage of short-term market movements, while 68% expected their portfolio to differ from the market index. Louise Watson, Natixis' head of distribution in Australia, said given more challenging conditions, investors were well served ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... August and November. FTSE Russell completed the first phase of its inclusion in June in which 5.5% of its emerging market index comprised China A shares. J.P. Morgan emerging markets and Asia Pacific equities investment specialist, Alexander Treves ...

Chief economist update: Thrilla in Osaka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... US$325 billion - sent the Shanghai composite index dropping by 13.4% from its 2019 high. China's benchmark equity market index has since recovered 6.4% of its losses resulting from optimism over the Trump-Xi meeting at the G20. The Yuan/US exchange ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... rallied by 11.9% this year to date, more than offsetting last year's 9.1% decline. Similarly, the MSCI emerging market index is up 9.1%, reversing the 7.5% loss recorded in 2018. The sixty-four million dollar question is does the equity rally have ...

ASIC dismisses Royal Commission insider trading reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... The following day, the banks' share prices were up significantly. Westpac jumped 7% on a day when the total share market index was only up 2%. ASIC's finding is in response to suggestions from the Labor party that the increase in banking share prices ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... May, to 15% in August, and to 20% in November this year. This would lift China's weighting in the MSCI Emerging Market Index from around 0.7% today to 3.3%. This would get money flowing into China's stockmarket. Indexed funds, exchange-traded ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
Two tweets from the US President (only because it couldn't fit in one) were all it took to send China's stocks soaring and turn its market technically from a bear to a bull. China's Shanghai Composite Index spiked 5.6% yesterday after US ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... the Asian emerging market space - the ones that I track - is the Philippines. The country's benchmark equity market index dropped 12.8% in 2018 at the same time that the peso depreciated by 5.1% versus the greenback over the same period. Normally ...

Fund managers embrace China exposure: Zenith

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... increased broker research and greater liquidity. "As more China A-Shares are introduced, the composition of the emerging market index will change with increased exposure to sectors such as financials, industrials and real estate. "This will give rise ...