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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. ...

Changed RBA rate expectations?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... Financial markets got what they wished for from the world's three biggest central banks that met last week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ), the Fed and the Bank of England (BOE) all delivered as expected but not without help from the repeated and reiterated ...

ESG and emerging markets investment continues rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... previous year. According to the research, Asia was the most popular regional choice, with not just the emerging economies but Japan equity and broad Asia equity proving attractive. This is in contrast to last year in which global equity mandates totaled ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... Halloween 2017 may have produced some palpitations as kids (and the kids at heart) went trick or treating, but for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) 'twas a fairly ho-hum event. At the conclusion of its 30-31 October policy meeting, the Japanese central served ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
Three of the world's biggest central banks will meet this week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) had already started their monetary policy deliberations yesterday and is set to conclude later today. This is expected to be a non-event with policy unchanged and ...