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Sustainability grows in EMs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... she said. The IFC-Mercer report also produced the first rating on ESG practices of fund managers in China, India, South Korea, and Brazil, identifying best-practice examples to pre-empt ESG risks and enhance returns. The project included a survey of ...

FTSE launches Asian sector indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... countries included on the FTSE Asia Pacific Index including China, Hong Kong SAR, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Malaysia and Thailand. Each sector index is derived from individual subsectors of the Industry Classification ...

Harrison leaves AIG Life

COMPANY RELEASES  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
Stuart Harrison, managing director of local subsidiary AIG Life, has resigned to take a position as AXA Hong Kong chief executive. Harrison has been managing director at AIG Life since 2006. The group has not announced his successor. Mark Wilson, AIA ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

IRESS eyes Asia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... and trading platform. During the first half of 2009, IRESS will introduce equities data from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea to its current offering of data for Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The additional data is being sourced from Thomson ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... to use this year. ITG highlighted that average trading costs varied widely in the Asia Pacific region. India, China and Korea shares were the cheapest places to trade with an average trading cost of around 20bp. In contrast, trading shares in Japan ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... materials sector is being hit heavily by concerns over the economies of our major export partners, Japan, China and South Korea." This followed news on Thursday that China's GDP growth had slowed, as expected. "It's not a healthy picture," Mr Potter ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... global slowdown and compounded by a rising currency. Elsewhere in Asia, the central banks of Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea cut interest rates. The Bank of Korea reduced interest rate to a record low of 2.5 per cent early in 2009 - the fifth in three ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... interest rates, the Bank of England (BoE) produced the mother of all rate cuts. Last week central banks in Australia, South Korea, India, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Switzerland and the Eurozone all cut interest rates by between 25 and 75 basis points. ...

October mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... (zero interest rate policy) until 2006 when it was certain that the economy was on a sustainable growth path. The Bank of Korea held an emergency meeting and reduced its key interest rate by 75 bps to 4.25 per cent and announced that it will accept a ...