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Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
The headline number is not that great. Aside from beating market expectations for ¥575.8 billion surplus, Japan's trade balance showed that the surplus decreased to ¥614.7 billion in March from ¥813.4 billion in the previous month and 17.4% less ...

Trump versus Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... year.) This is a remarkably surprising response especially given that the governments of China, Russia and South Korea and Japan are on high alert. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun reports that China and Russia had "dispatched intelligence-gathering vessels from ...

Pension fund embraces managed accounts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... infrastructure funds in developed countries; and diversified core real estate investments mainly in developed countries and Japan. Under its terms, products investing in specific regions can be considered for the SMA though products investing mainly ...

Japan to drive real assets globally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2017
Years of low growth and low yield in Japan has impacted investor sentiment and behaviour in a unique way, with its ¥500 trillion institutional investment market now expected to play a key role in funding the world's infrastructure and real estate. ...

Savills IM expands with $90m acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... $90 million in total for the firm's open-ended, core/core-plus Asia Pacific Fund. They complement existing fund assets in Japan and Singapore, covering the retail, logistics, hospitality and residential sectors. Savills head of investments Australia ...

Japanese businesses have sunnier mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) Tankan survey showed that the large manufacturers' sentiment index increased to a reading of plus 12 in the March quarter from the December quarter's plus 10 reading. While this is lower than market expectations for an increase ...

AMP Capital CIO departs in leadership reshuffle

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... Capital. By creating an Asia Pacific region, we are better integrating our operations across Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and Asia more broadly. I'm excited at the prospect of greater sharing of ideas and knowledge between the teams and clients ...

Less than expected but good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
Japan's latest trade stat indicates that the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) optimism, noted in its March monetary policy statement that, "Exports are expected to follow a moderate increasing trend on the back of an improvement in overseas economies" is perhaps ...

Life insurance ripe for disruption

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Unprecedented challenges in the life insurance industry are exacerbating profitably and forcing some players out of the market, the latest PwC report shows. Customer demographics, ongoing trust issues, heightened regulation, foreign entrants, technology ...

US corporate debt mandate signed to Aussie manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... achieved a return close to 10% annualised for the year to February 2017. It has typically invested in the Eurozone, Americas, Japan and Australia. Carden expects the continued outperformance in the US market as inflationary measures continue under a ...