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Man GLG completes EM debt team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... professionals will thrive." The emerging markets debt team will manage three distinct strategies with one focused on hard currency, one local currency and an opportunistic strategy which will invest across the entire emerging market debt domain.

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... to be around 3% in fiscal year 2016, and the unemployment rate has fallen from last year's cyclical high. Significant currency depreciation is spurring services exports, particularly education and tourism. Low nominal interest rates, coupled with pent-up ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... over 40,000 stocks and 10,000 equity fund portfolios, and contains 36 risk factors which cover style, sector, region and currency characteristics. The style factors are: economic moat, financial health, ownership popularity, ownership risk, valuation ...

Report finds fresh barriers to funds management exports

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... original Johnson Report; treatment of foreign exchange gains and losses under Australia's taxation rules; lack of multi-currency class investment vehicles; a unique regulatory approach under the single Responsible Entity model; lack of recognition of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... sales It seems Japan cannot get a break. Safe haven flows into the yen following Brexit has strengthened the Japanese currency further. This would certainly negatively impact its external account as exporters' competitiveness erode and translation effects ...

T. Rowe Price strengthens global offering

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... Australian advisers and investors know the importance of accessing international equities, the legitimate risk and impact of currency movements on their portfolios deters investment. "The Global Equity (Hedged) Fund seeks to provide investors access ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... sheet and potentially generate uncertainty in the banking system, for example in the event of uncertainty over Scotland's currency arrangement" (Fitch). EU on Brexit The heads of states of the three biggest EU-ex UK nations - Germany, France and Italy ...

Brexit - the Australian connection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... versus the US dollar; down 0.6% against the Chinese yuan; down 4.5% vis-A -vis the Japanese yen. And while the local currency went up against the British pound - up 7.3% -- and the euro - up 1.0% -- the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... employment growth since 2009." Eurozone flash PMI Markit's flash Eurozone PMI presented mixed indications for the single currency area. Manufacturing activity has picked up with the PMI for this sector rising to a six-month high 52.6 in June from 51.5 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... in the run-up to the EU referendum, combined with global risks elsewhere, has offset some of the benefits of a weaker currency at this time." "But while British manufacturers had a tricky start to the year, there are more positive signs as output and ...