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Platinum sells $24m Asia stake

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... pre-tax net tangible assets growth, was nonetheless slightly lower than the return delivered by the MSCI All Country Asia ex-Japan Net Index, which was 23.02% over the same period. The company has reported a net profit after tax of $39.2 million, and ...

Nikko AM enters Australian LBO market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
Nikko Asset Management is launching a new private equity-backed, leveraged buyout fund to the Australian market. Established on behalf of a cornerstone Japanese institutional investor, the Nikko AM Australian LBO Loan Fund will invest in syndicated ...

America is full

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... in consumer prices. At this point in the US economic cycle, it's hard to imagine this happening. The same way it was for Japan in the early 1990's but... it still happened.

All up and all together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... current indications are on the ball, the fourth quarter will be better. Year-on-year GDP growth rates in the US, the Eurozone, Japan, the UK and India all accelerated in the September quarter from the previous one. China's GDP remained unchanged at 6.9% ...

IFM Investors expands in Korea, appoints client director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... workers," he said. "For our existing investors the opening of the Korean office, alongside our presence in Hong Kong and Japan, will further broaden and deepen our client relations across the Asian region. It will provide the ability to pool client mandates ...

Superannuation savings reach $2.5 trillion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... to this asset class. " Australia's retirement savings pool is about the fourth biggest in the world after the US, UK and Japan. Several Australian superannuation and pension funds, including The Future Fund, AustralianSuper and QSuper, were included ...

The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
Quo vadis inflation? The minutes of the Fed's 31 October - 1 November FOMC meeting revealed Yellen & Co's continued confusion over the unresponsiveness of consumer price inflation to undeniably solid growth in the economy. According to the minutes ...

Japan on reverse cycle?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
Everything that could go right is going right for Japan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won by landslide at the 22 October 2017 general elections, ensuring that sitting Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Haruhiko Kuroda will be re-appointed when his term expires ...

China trade deficit with Australia widens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... billion in October). China recorded trade deficits with Taiwan (US$10.4 billion in October), South Korea (US$7.0 billion) and Japan (US$2.0 billion).

AXA IM appoints APAC lead for real assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2017
... overseeing investment, asset management and capital raising activities from its offices in its newly-relocated Asian hub Japan and in South Korea and Australia. The promotion also now sees Jacquemin join AXA IM - Real Assets' global management board. ...