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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 ...

Advice industry compensation bill hits $37m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017
The financial advice industry shelled out $37 million in FY17 to 2200 clients that suffered financially from bad advice, according to ASIC. The regulator completed 227 "high-intensity surveillances" of financial advisers and banned a total of 35 "bad ...

Pension fund consortium acquires renewable energy portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... solar renewable energy portfolio of Equis Energy for US$3.7 billion. Headquartered in Singapore, Equis Energy operates in Japan, Australia, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Thailand. It has some promising 155 long-term developments in its pipeline ...

Genetics will test life insurance sector

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... China, Finland, India, Spain and the United States have no regulation on the use of genetic test results, while Greece and Japan have no regulation but do abide by codes of conduct developed by industry groups. Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... pressures have alerted policy makers to the growing importance of intergenerational equity issues," Goulet said. He said Japan, Austria, Italy and France are examples of developed economies whose pension systems don't represent a sustainable model that ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... only dreamed of becoming a big economy not long ago. In 2011 it became the second biggest economy in the world, displacing Japan. All this from Bloomberg's 28 November 2014 report "China Overtakes Japan as World's Second-Biggest Stock Market". For sure ...