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Investment giant appoints global insto lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... Jersey, Lochhead will lead the global team, including representatives in Sydney, Chicago, London, Munich, Singapore and Shanghai, where PGIM plans to expand to later this year. PGIM chief executive David Hunt said Lochhead's leadership would see the ...

Chief economist update: It'll hurt me more than it hurts you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019
... companies operating in China. "SCMP noted new survey by American Chamber of Commerce in China and its sister organization in Shanghai revealed three-quarters of US companies operating in China said escalating trade war was hurting their business. More ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... Stoxx-50 index is up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. "Bond yields have been falling: US 10-year Treasury bond yield down by 0.09% to 2.59% since ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... Stoxx-50 index is up 12.8%; the All Ords is up 9.7%; the FTSE-100 is up 7.4%; the Nikkei-225 is up 7.2% and China's Shanghai composite index is up 21.2%. This makes perfect sense, especially given bond yields have been falling: US 10-year treasury ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... Luxembourg and Greenland, plus change. These would provide extra underpinning to the recent bull market in Chinese equities - Shanghai composite index up 20.1% this year to date; CSI 300 index up 24.6%; SSE-A share index up 20.1%. Time to pig out?

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... 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 President Donald Trump used his fingers to do the talking: "I am pleased to ...

Fund managers embrace China exposure: Zenith

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2019
... exposure to China from 18% to 22% over the past 12 months. Meanwhile exposure to A-Shares, a class of stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzen Chinese stock exchanges, has doubled from 2% to 4%. In mid-2018 China A-Shares were included in the MSCI Emerging ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... CSI 300 Index represents the largest and most liquid shares listed on the two stock exchanges in China's mainland, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The ETF has raised $17 million in the three and a half years since. The index which it tracks has taken a beating ...

Chief economist update: Another year over, a new one begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... like 2018 - where all major world equity markets produced negative returns and are at correction levels (China's Shanghai composite index is in a bear market) and global economic growth momentum peaked in February 2018 and has since then, slowed ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... below shows my calculations of the world's major equity markets' fall from grace. It shows that, apart from the Shanghai Composite index, all fit the technical definition of a "correction" - at least a 10% fall from the nearest high - but not ...