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AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... was "inevitable", classifying it as the highest-priority item on the investment team's watch list, followed by the US-China trade war, and lastly a crash in Aussie housing. "We are going to start reducing our share weightings because that's the ...

EM investors seek China alternative amid trade war

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The intensity of the US and China trade war roiling the equity markets is worrying investors who are seeking alternative emerging markets exposure. This is according to King Irving Funds Management managing director Kate Mulligan, who sees emerging ...

Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... start of the year, on the back of a slump in US equities, rising interest rates and escalated trade tensions between US and China. This was close to the index's level of 5652 seen on 4 October 2017. The markets have rebounded slightly from Thursday's ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... by 3.5% over the same period (after growing by 9.3% in the second quarter) due largely to a drop in US soybean exports to China. The inflation measures embedded in the US National Accounts would surely give President Donald Trump more ammunition on his ...

Beware the fintech Ponzi scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... as P2P platforms. In a paper released by the SWIFT Institute titled "Quo Vadis? A comparison of the fintech revolution in China and the West", the joint authors Dr. Bonnie Buchanan and Dr. Cathy Xuying Cao provided a comprehensive report of the development ...

Two new ETFs on the block

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... BetaShares have announced new ETFs, as product launches in the segment heat up. A new smart beta ETF from VanEck will invest in China A-shares, after the manager gained a licence to invest in the asset class independent of the China Stock Connect. The ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... 41% lower than 2017/18." High grains prices (made even higher by the Sino-US trade spat) are already impacting demand from China - Australia's biggest export market. Reuters' reports that China's imports of sorghum dropped by 76.9% in the ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
The Shanghai composite index surged by 4.1% at the end of yesterday's trading activity in China. This is the biggest single day gained since 2 March 2016 (4.3%) and followed the 2.5% jump in the index last Friday. This is to be expected given that ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... China's powers-that-be are coming out of with words of comfort. Here's Bloomberg's list: "People's Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said in a statement on the central bank's website that it is studying measures to ease companies' ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Financial markets remain in a state of flux as investors' chills appear to be multiplying on growing concerns over: Wall Street's heightened volatility, Fed rate rises and the risk of a policy mistake, Trump's protectionist policy, China's ...