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HSBC announces first int'l RMB bond

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
HSBC will issue an international 3-year RMB bond, the first to be launched outside Chinese sovereign territories. The move dovetailed with an initiative launched by George Osborne, British chancellor of the exchequer, to make London a centre for offshore ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... in New York on Monday. The dollar rose to 80.71 Japanese yen from 80.39 yen. HONG KONG - Renewed fears over Europe's sovereign debt crisis continued to dampen sentiment in Asia as investors. Tokyo was flat, edging down 5.93 points to 9,464.71, Seoul ...

SWFs jump 16% to $4.62tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Global sovereign wealth fund assets jumped 16% in the past 12 months to $4.62 trillion, with private equity assets in North America attracting special interest, reveals new research. According to the alternative investments research group Preqin, 57% ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... member Benoit Coeure suggested markets were overestimating Spain's problems and did not rule out additional purchases of sovereign debt. Hong Kong-listed Chinese banks were among the day's biggest blue-chip gainers. China Construction Bank added 2.2 ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... news of yester-months, these spooks are the very same ones that haunted investors as 2011 headed into 2012. European sovereign debt crisis. Check. Tepid growth in America. Check. Slowdown to a crash landing in China. Check. Middle East, North Korea ...

SWFs have liabilities to manage too

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
The $5 trillion sovereign wealth fund sector is poorly served by the investment management industry which doesn't understand their risk management requirements, claims a just released joint study by the EDHEC Risk Institute and Deutsche Bank. The misunderstanding ...

Sustainability more than greenwash: Mercer

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... about improving risk-adjusted returns," said Ambachtsheer. "In terms of buy-in it tends to be public funds, increasingly sovereign wealth funds with activity among endowment and foundations common. "We are starting to see more action from corporate plans ...

QE going, going ...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... night. Though some bloggeratis still attach the no QE story on this, it was more likely due to re-emergent European sovereign debt crisis concerns following reports of the pain in Spain - the Treasury sold less bonds than targeted and at higher yields ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... percent to 6,784.06 points and the Paris CAC 40 shed 2.74 percent to 3,313.47 points. In Spain, where a disappointing sovereign debt auction rattled nerves, the Ibex 35 lost 2.09 percent. Milan shares tumbled 2.42 percent. In foreign exchange trading ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... changed it tune from November 2011 when it lowered its growth forecasts for its members - and warned that the European sovereign debt crisis could worsen economic prospects -- to "short-term prospects have improved relative to the situation prevailing ...