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More than half fail CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... for its difficulty, the number of Level I registrations grew 14% year-on-year, the majority of which were from Mainland China (19,598), the US (12,126) and India (6,889). Some 3357 Australians took part in the six-hour long exam. To become a qualified ...

Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... tougher to test it and that's where quant managers are best placed, she adds. In the past fortnight Acadian launched its China A-shares strategy. China A-shares have historically been reserved for domestic investors but are now being granted foreign ...

Private wealth platform appoints ASX-listed corporate adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A blockchain-based private wealth platform that created China's first robo-advice solution appointed an ASX-listed corporate advisory firm for its initial coin offering (ICO). Bankorus, which now advises more than 200,000 high-net-worth investors representing ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... six-year term on the 18th of this month. Russia's strengthening economy and credit ratings in the face of sanctions could, like China's President Xi, make him president for life. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. ...

Chief economist update: Trump spoils for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... react firmly and commensurately to defend our interests," President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker said. China still has to officially respond but only two weeks ago, Wang Hejun - chief of the trade remedy and investigation bureau at ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... prices will remain at these elevated levels as displayed by the sharp volatility in iron ore prices last year. The key is China - Australia's largest export market (accounting for 29.6% of our total exports) and the biggest buyer of iron ore. The Chinese ...

Chief economist update: The dog ate my growth target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2018
Doggone! The latest batch of money and credit data out of China would have anyone think that President Xi and Premier Li's promise to reduce financial risks by cracking down on debt, excessive leverage, risky loans (through shadow banking) has gone ...

Premium China creates chief executive role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
The former chief executive of Premium Wealth Management and head of advice at Australian Unity will lead Premium China Funds Management. In a newly-created role for the fund manager, Paul Harding-Davis has been appointed as chief executive. He is charged ...

AMP cuts fees for new wholesale fund suite

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... driven record external cashflows into AMP Capital, including a major contribution from one of our Chinese partnerships, China Life AMP Asset Management," Meller said.

Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... Dow). Last year's performance figures show the Sensex-30 index surged by 27.9% - outperforming the equity market returns in China (6.6%), Indonesia (20.0%), Malaysia (9.5%), Indonesia (13.7%) and Italy (13.6%). It therefore came as no surprise when the ...