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Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... Markit Economics' preliminary estimates show that while the purchasing managers' indices (PMI) for the US, the Eurozone and Japan all came in below market expectations, all remained in expansion. The IHS/Markit flash US composite output index slipped ...

US investment giant hires Australian insto head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... distribution communication at ING Investment Management. At PGIM, Sinclair will report to the head of the Asia Pacific ex-Japan institutional relationship group, Philip Hsin. His role will comprise building relationships with Australian super funds and ...

May the force's not with her

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2017
What UK Prime Minister Theresa May expected as a landslide win at the snap 8 June general elections turned out to be a slide at the polls for the Conservatives instead. The British prime minister intended to secure her Brexit mandate when she announced ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... the RBA, "supported by increased spending on infrastructure and property construction..." However, the latest news out of Japan - Australia's second biggest export market where about 15% of the country's products and services are shipped - provide cause ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap will likely engender higher financial volatilities than are currently priced in." "Financial ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... 2.0% growth rate in the US and the UK's 1.9% (using the same measure) but marginally stronger than the Eurozone's 1.70% and Japan's 1.6%. As telegraphed by the current account data, net exports (exports minus imports) provided the biggest subtraction ...

Veteran WTW investments head departs

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... WTW since 2003, having previously been an associate at McKinsey & Company and a deputy manager at the Industrial Bank of Japan. Since joining WTW, Ogai has served as managing consultant for the firm's Japanese business and leader of the Tokyo investment ...

Just what the doctor ordered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... repatriated earnings (when converted into the local currency). The exact same thing the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are trying to engineer with their own legal tenders but sans the "unconventional monetary policies" they are currently ...

No spend, no inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... - the most optimistic the BOJ had been in nine years - and of above-potential growth or a positive output gap. To wit, "Japan's economy has been turning toward a moderate expansion. Although an improvement in domestic demand is not remarkable, the economy ...

Asset managers lax in building relationships

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... not doing enough to actively engage and create meaningful dialogue with investee companies, an international survey shows. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), which has ¥144.8 trillion ($1.7 trillion) in assets, sought to evaluate the ...

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