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Pension fund giant mandates Fidelity

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... management arm to manage passive domestic equities. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) appointed FIL Investments Japan and Resona Bank on December 26. Both will manage passive strategies to invest in Japanese equities, benchmarked to the TOPIX. ...

AXA IM backs Japanese logistics

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... create a Japanese logistics business. The joint venture is being established through the purchase of six logistics assets in Japan for more than ¥100 billion ($1.29 billion). AXA IM - Real Assets is partnering with Asia Pacific real estate developer ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... Return Index's year to date return is negative 7.4%. "International developments." China and the Eurozone are slowing, Japan and Germany are a quarter away from a technical recession, Italian budget deficit concerns, Brexit concerns, and the shrinking ...

CFS swaps global equities managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
Colonial First State has appointed a $600 million mandate as it reviews the manager lineup for its $3.8 billion multi-manager global equities fund. In a change that became active last Friday, Boston-based quant manager Arrowstreet Capital took over ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... economies, led by the Fed's on-going move towards policy normalisation. Then "Tariff Trump" happened, China slowed, Japan lurched a quarter away from recession, Eurozone's economic activity lost momentum underscored by the contraction in German ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...

Asset manager consolidation top of mind for HNWIs

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
More than 95% of high net worth individuals in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) are prepared to consolidate assets with their primary wealth manager, provided there's a strong connection. But it's less likely in Australia. The number dips to 73% ...

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
In the early months of this year, financial markets were abuzz with speculations that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing an exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January when the ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
America's Thanksgiving celebration is only two winks away but the way the US equity market is going, investors have nothing to give thanks for. Three of Wall Street's benchmark equity indices are now in the red for the year - S&P 500 down 1.2% ...

Chief economist update: The money is one Fed rate hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... lagged effects of the Fed's previous rate hikes. Latest indicators from the major economies of China, the Eurozone and Japan clearly show the loss of growth momentum there. Trump's tax cuts and fiscal spending would not provide the oomph it generated ...