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Chief economist update: Look out below

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... sure and for certain, it's gonna irritate Trump. Financial markets were shell-shocked after the People's Bank of China (PBOC) allowed the yuan to fall below the psychological threshold of CNY7.0 per US dollar. The official CNY/US$ exchange rate ...

VGI Partners readies $1bn Asian fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia," Luciano said. "We will maintain a watching brief on India, mainland China and the Philippines but will not be investing in companies listed in these jurisdictions for the foreseeable future." Alignment ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... September 1st, putting a small additional Tariff of 10% on the remaining 300 Billion Dollars of goods and products coming from China into our Country" [ sic ]. Yes folks, Trump's fired at China again, and this "small" 10% could presumably be raised ...

Former adviser cops 20-year prison sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... personal expenses. When the loan defaulted in February 2016, Bennett claimed to be unaware of the default as she had been in China for the preceding eight months. However, investigators found no record of international travel at that time. In addition ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... BetaShares geared equities products. GEAR returned 45.2% and GGUS returned 41.2%. These were followed by two VanEck Vectors China ETFs: CNEW and CETF returned just under 30% each. Active ETFs share of inflows weakens Aussie investors strengthened their ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... floodgates to the once-difficult-to-access Chinese equity market. In May 2019, it increased the inclusion factor of all China A large cap stocks from 5% to 10%, and will further increase its exposure in 5% increments over August and November. FTSE Russell ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Bloomberg US Dollar Spot index was trading at 96.7680 on the day Trump tweeted the below: "China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being ...

Chief economist update: A case for optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... the Morrison government's tax rebate is in the mail, the stock market is up, and there are positive whispers over a US-China trade deal. But we're not! A day after the NAB Business Survey showed a sharp drop in business confidence in June, Westpac's ...

Aussie HNWIs slip down global rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... overtaken by Italy. The US remains home to the largest HNWI population (5.3m), followed by Japan (3.2m), Germany (1.4m) and China (1.3m). One of the key drivers of the decline was the flight to cash last December, the report said, following the global ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... investors saying that the US has increased in attractiveness over the last two years," the report said. Investors attracted to China, stay away from Europe More than 80% of the investors said trade tensions were affecting their decisions to allocate ...