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IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... capacity exceeds 100 gigawatts with presence in 35 countries and regions overseas including Malta, Japan, Turkey, and Vietnam. SPIC was advised by Santander Global Corporate Banking and King & Wood Mallesons. IFM Investors was advised by Credit Suisse ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... Participating countries include Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, NZ, Peru, Singapore, USA and Vietnam.

AIA appoints New Zealand head

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
Life insurer AIA has named the person to replace Wayne Besant as chief executive for its New Zealand business. Former AIA Australia chief group insurance officer Natalie Cameron commences in the role on 8 June. Besant, meanwhile, is heading to South ...

Brisbane adviser pleads guilty to $9 million fraud

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
A Brisbane-based financial adviser has pleaded guilty to 54 charges involving a $9 million fraud. Thanh Quoc Tu was permanently banned from financial services in July 2014 and the charges he now faces could carry a maximum penalty of up to 12 years ...

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... and Russia continuing to amass troops in the Ukrainian border (this is still on-going). Still on-going is Syria, China-Vietnam/Japan/Philippines/Malaysia tit for tats over a few pieces of rock floating on the ocean... and currently showing at a theatre ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... We had lotsa lotsa "major geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate on the ones ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Russia, the military coup in Thailand, the advances by euro sceptic parties in the European elections, tensions between Vietnam and China and a slowing China, to name a few worries... there seems to be no worries (looking at the VIX). But looking at ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... The ACSI report found a significant shift of investment from emerging markets such as China to LDCs such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, where labour and human rights (LHR) risks are severe. Of the 34 ASX-listed companies surveyed, only 30% had ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... Manila Water, a utility company in the Philippines which is winning water and sewerage contracts all over the Philippines, Vietnam and Jakarta. Morphic is also holding a basket of US housebuilders as a play on the economic recovery. There is also a stringent ...

Vietnam an attractive fit for family offices

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... million dollars to invest in China, this could be overwhelming prospect, it's so massive and it's a huge market. Whereas Vietnam being a smaller market with a smaller market cap, and with most family offices are around $500 million, is a much more manageable ...