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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... as the US Federal Reserve winds back its asset buying program, which has created large flows of money into developing economies. IG market analyst Chris Weston said the move away from emerging markets was exaggerated overnight by the Fed's decision to ...

NGS Super launches direct investment platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2014
... leader of Mercer's Financial Services Business for the Pacific region said that the platform's design sought to gain economies of scale while still tailoring the product for each fund. "Our challenge was making sure we had something competitive that ...

Europe a 'running sore' on global economy: Probyn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... eurozone finally from emerge from 18 months of recession, he said the real issue was the mismatch between the various economies. He said the recovery in the eurozone was of a different nature to that, for example, in the US. "In the eurozone it is difficult ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... markets were mixed after suffering a heavy sell-off in the previous session, with traders still nervous over emerging economies as they await the Federal Reserve's next move on its stimulus program. Tokyo closed down 0.17 per cent, or 25.57 points, to ...

Global economy on a knife edge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... cent, to 4,083.61. Stocks fell sharply last week on concerns about weak corporate earnings and uncertainty in emerging economies. Investors are "anxious," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at S&P Capital IQ. "People feel as if they got caught ...

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... markets, according to emerging market specialist Advance Emerging Capital. Frontier markets, or the emerging market economies of tomorrow, promise much to investors with a higher risk appetite but a perception that the companies operating in less established ...

Watch central banks closely, warns Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... stabilises and generates moderate growth. "From an economic perspective, things are improving across a number of major economies," Neuberger Berman president and chief investment officer Joseph Amato said. "As the Fed and other central banks adjust their ...

There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

Reflation, rotation and the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013
... the system - which the Bank of Japan (BOJ) added more of with its stimulus announcement and "abenomics' in April - the economies of the world would have nowhere to go but improve (reflate), putting bonds under pressure (rotation out of this asset class ...