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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 ...

Insurance counteracting ageing population risks

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
... insurance industry to fill the gap, new research from reinsurer Swiss Re shows. The 'ageing wallet' study of the US, UK, Japan, China and Australia's pension systems shows governments bear the cost (60%) of funding income, healthcare and inheritance ...

Global economy biased toward active management

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... in the equity sector will shine in 2017. Investors are also pursuing emerging market opportunities in to Asia (excluding Japan) to provide the best performance in the year ahead.

Super reform impacts AMP results

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... III fundraising saw AMP Capital record new external cash flows of $228 million. Meanwhile net cash flows of $83 million in Japan were driven by institutional flows into AMP Capital's global debt and equity infrastructure funds. AMP Capital closed Q1 ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
No news, it appears, is good news for Japan. The country's stock market and the yen have been heading in the right direction ever since the nuclear threat tit-for-tat between the US and North Korea was taken off the headlines. The Nikkei-225 index has ...