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Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Suncorp Life will sell Tyndall Investments in Australia and New Zealand to Japanese fund manager Nikko Asset Management for up to $128.5 million. Tyndall currently has $25 billion in assets under management, making it the 15th largest fund manager in ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... Did I just hear US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner cursed the undervalued yuan? There goes another... this time from Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan. But underneath China's strong export growth - up 25.1 per cent in the year to September - is also ...

Going global with Threadneedle

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... investing internationally. I mean quite clearly an example of this would be the Yen, which provided a constant headwind for Japanese exporters over the past 15 to 20 years," Jeremy Podger, head of global equities at Threadneedle Asset Management told ...

Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... attempt to gain competitiveness through artificial currency debasement, analysts say. After six years of abstinence, the Japanese Ministry of Finance succumbed to the rising Yen, intervening in currency markets on Wednesday. "There is a concern that ...

Yen sunk but not for long

BENJAMIN ONG IS FINANCIAL STANDARD'S DAILY COLUMNIST ON THE ECONOMY  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... per cent at 6,155.04 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 closed up 12.53 points, or 0.34 per cent, at 3,684.73 points. TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose on Monday, gaining for a fourth day after fewer-than-expected US job losses in August bolstered optimism that the ...

Legg Mason Permal Global Absolute Trust earns high rating

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... returns and the full transparency of the underlying portfolio. When remarking on the trust's approach to the Yen and Japanese market, Ajay Dayal, investment director at Legg Mason explained that after Japan's equity market gave nothing in 2009, the first ...

Fictional fact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... reconciling the diverging growth paths of the Asian giants - China is growing so strong to the point of overheating while Japanese growth remains insufficient to end deflation in the economy. Someone once said that, "to ignore the facts doesn't change ...

GFC not over, but opportunities abundant: TRG

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... repeat of the boom and bust Japan suffered in the 1980's. "I think it's unlikely. If anything, the US is moving into Japanese-style territory in the last two decades. They don't want to seem to take the pain and restructure quickly." "I find it sort ...