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WisdomTree expands to Asia Pacific

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... said: "Last October in collaboration with [Chinese Securities Index] and Caixin Rayliant, we launched the first multi-factor China A-shares smart beta ETFs for bedrock and new economy exposure." The two smart beta products track the CSI smart beta indices ...

Go your own way: AXA IM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... only look to last year to see what happened when everybody loved the dollar and commodities while turning their nose up at China and emerging markets, he said. "I'm not saying you should definitely be contrarian, but you must also bear in mind that one ...

AMP considers "all alternatives" in life insurance portfolio review

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 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. He added: "In wealth management, we've delivered the next phase of our Goals 360 advice ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... pretty good for a country with a declining population. They've got an incredibly low unemployment rate at 2.8%," he said. China will see a modest slow down after years of deceleration but grow about 6%, he said. Overall, Baur forecasts global economies ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... improving diversification while also facing lower capital charges than other risk assets. Invesco chief executive Greater China, Southeast Asia and Korea, Terry Pan said: "With improving market fundamentals and tightening monetary policies, the study ...

EY issues ICO theft warning

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... extremely speculative," the report said. The US originated the highest volume of ICOs of US$1bn, followed by Russia and China each raising US$300m; Australia raised about $34m. The research also found the ICO network is congested as traders and business ...

Asset management services provider expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... stocks, fixed income and mutual funds. In addition to the Australian market, Blackwell is aiming to expand to Europe, Greater China and New Zealand by becoming a one-stop investment solution provider, particularly as Stock Connect is paving the way for ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... Asia has seen a spike of insurtech activity in the past two years with major regional innovation hubs taking shape in both China and Singapore. "We recognise that the true power of insurtech is in collaboration and the best innovations will scale across ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... senior vice president of Northern Trust Capital Markets, focused on sales and trading in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong and China. Before his three-year tenure at Northern Trust, he was a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and head of Australian ...

Money managers eye household debt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... of a bubble. "Oversupply of apartments, regulatory restrictions on lending for investment property, capital controls in China and an over-indebted household sector could combine to create the 'perfect storm' for Australian house prices," according to ...