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Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... US managed and direct offerings. It previously entered Australia in 2000 and announced its exit the next year, alongside Japan, citing weak market conditions and sluggish progress in meeting its financial goals, with pre tax charges totaling US $35 million ...

Japanese insurer gets Treasury tick to up Challenger stake

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
A Japanese insurer that owns about 16% of Challenger has received the green light from the Treasury to increase its stake in the company. In March, MS&AD announced its intention to take its stake in Challenger over 15% and seek board representation. ...

SSGA global equity beta head retires, promotes two

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... service. She was responsible for overseeing about $140 billion in assets within 120 portfolios across Asia Pacific excluding Japan. Darroch was also a director and responsible manager of SSGA Australia Services, the responsible entity of SSGA funds ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... otherwise) with everybody - China, Mexico, Iran, the EU, climate change, etc. The debilitating effect of which has now prompted Japan and South Korea to engage in a trade war of their own. There's Brexit and the recent contraction in Germany's ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... probably aren't getting as much analysis. But one is negative interest rate policies. Those are being used in Europe and in Japan. They haven't been as popular in the U.S., but that's something else that certainly could be looked at. There ...

Fidante loses $3.9bn of super fund assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... Challenger Life, saw FUM increase by 9.3% to $20.1 billion. Howes flagged that the funds management business is expanding in Japan, opening a Tokyo office to support the MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings relationship and to develop distribution opportunities ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... normalisation and cut the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.25% in what's speculated of a rate-cutting regime. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) persists with its quantitative and qualitative monetary easing (QQE) first, with negative interest rates ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
How low can they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative ...

Platinum funds leak over $100m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... outflows include its international Fund, the Platinum Unhedged Fund, Platinum Asia Fund, Platinum European Fund, Platinum Japan Fund, Platinum International Brands Fund, Platinum International Healthcare Fund, Platinum Technology Fund and the Platinum ...

Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... negative interest rates. What's more chilling is that the US-China trade war has now sparked a mini-trade war between Japan and South Korea - both countries removing each other from their respective trade "white list" (preferred list of exporters). ...