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The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... and Russia continuing to amass troops in the Ukrainian border (this is still on-going). Still on-going is Syria, China-Vietnam/Japan/Philippines/Malaysia tit for tats over a few pieces of rock floating on the ocean... and currently showing at a theatre ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... We had lotsa lotsa "major geopolitical events" - September 11, North Korea nukes, Thailand coup, China-Japan/Malaysia/Vietnam/Philippines island dispute, Ukraine - yet the S&P 500 index continues to break records. But let's just concentrate on the ones ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Russia, the military coup in Thailand, the advances by euro sceptic parties in the European elections, tensions between Vietnam and China and a slowing China, to name a few worries... there seems to be no worries (looking at the VIX). But looking at ...

Super investors scrutinise companies over LDC working conditions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... The ACSI report found a significant shift of investment from emerging markets such as China to LDCs such as Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, where labour and human rights (LHR) risks are severe. Of the 34 ASX-listed companies surveyed, only 30% had ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... Manila Water, a utility company in the Philippines which is winning water and sewerage contracts all over the Philippines, Vietnam and Jakarta. Morphic is also holding a basket of US housebuilders as a play on the economic recovery. There is also a stringent ...

Vietnam an attractive fit for family offices

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... million dollars to invest in China, this could be overwhelming prospect, it's so massive and it's a huge market. Whereas Vietnam being a smaller market with a smaller market cap, and with most family offices are around $500 million, is a much more manageable ...

Frontier markets poised for strong 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... according to HSBC Global Research. The MSCI Frontier markets index - which includes economies such as Nigeria, Qatar and Vietnam, thought to be the world's next emerging markets - have disappointed in recent years but HSBC believes the recent strong ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... where demand for high-quality but more affordable payment solutions is growing. Southeast Asia (including Myanmar and Vietnam), the Middle East and Africa have already been singled out as target markets.

Australian pay rate growth underperforms Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... rises of just 4% in 2013, much lower than our Asian neighbours. In particular they expect pay rate jumps to be 13% in Vietnam, 11% in Indonesia and India, 10% in China, 8% in the Philippines and 6% in Malaysia. But unless surveys like this take even ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... jumped by a better than expected 7.1% in the year to the third quarter - better than Indonesia's 6.2%, Malaysia's 5.2%, Vietnam's 4.7% and Thailand's 3.0%. More, according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The country is the only economy in the world ...