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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 ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... in the global economy since last year," he said. More recent survey and eco stats releases out of the US, the Eurozone, Japan and the UK suggest that this is broadening still. And while there's a bit of slowing in China - manufacturing and services sector ...

Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... Australia's economic growth would outstrip other advanced economies over the next 23 years? Exhibit A: China. It outstripped Japan as the world's second biggest economy in 2010. As at the end of 2016, China's GDP stood at US$11.8 trillion, up from around ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... unifying message from three of the world's major central banks that met over the past 24 hours. As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) kept monetary policy settings unchanged - discount rate at -0.1%; 10-year JGB yield target at 0%; asset purchases ...

Markets ignoring climate crisis: Hewson

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... average score are, in order: the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, Canada, the US, Australia and Japan.

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... its sights on, surprise of surprises, its ally and next-door neighbour, Canada. Mexico, I could understand or even China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Germany or Switzerland - for these are the countries the US Treasury Department (in its recent semi-annual ...