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Boutique fund manager drops fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
A boutique funds management group is reducing the management fees on one of its signature funds. Premium China Funds Management is dropping the management fee on its Premium Asia Fund by 45 basis points. This will sit alongside the removal of the performance ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... 2019 peak. This is because the disruption to supply from Brazil's mining disaster is being negated by the slowdown in China and its continuing effort to reduce pollution by restricting steel production (of which iron ore is the major raw material) ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... expectations for not only one, but two interest rate cuts gaining advocates as the year progresses. And then, there's China which is easing both monetary and fiscal policies. Just as 2018's optimism over global growth brought speculations of ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... half of last year, the policy (easing/halt) responses from the world's major central banks (and fiscal authorities - China) have revived my optimism over the global growth outlook and with that, my sentiment for the financial markets.

MSCI ups China A-shares, managers respond

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
MSCI said it will increase weighting of China A-shares in its indices from 5% to 20% by the end of this year. Here's what managers think. Mainland Chinese shares could rise: VanEck VanEck believes the inclusion could hoist mainland Chinese shares ...

Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... mutual bond access program Bond Connect, qualified Australian and global institutional investors can now trade mainland China bonds through Saxo. According to the bank, this is the first offering that enables access via a simple 'click to trade' functionality. ...

Global fund launches in retail market

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... of the fund invests in US-listed companies such as Alphabet, Amazon and Marriott. It also invests in companies based in China, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK. Management fees sit at 1.2% (plus GST). It does not charge a performance fee. The fund ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... bracing for the upcoming Federal election. But there's one truism in RBA Governor Philip Lowe's latest statement: "In China, the authorities have taken further steps to ease financing conditions, partly in response to slower growth in the economy." ...

Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... good fortune and success. This is no truer than from the land the 12 animal signs of the lunar calendar zodiac originated - China. This is against consensus expectations that China's GDP growth would continue to slide from the below target rate of ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... Australia's housing market boom." "While the risks around [a deterioration in the external environment, particularly China], appear to have receded for now, this may be masking the growing risks from the second, which is gathering momentum and deserves ...