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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... flagged the easing in the home lending market as among its reasons for lowering the official cash rate earlier this month. Japan machinery orders At last, some rare good news out of Japan. Machinery orders jumped by 8.3% in the month of June - the first ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... year to July following a 2.6% drop in the previous month. The producer price index had been in deflation since March 2012. Japan machine tool orders A 19.6% year-on-year drop in Japanese machine tool orders in July marked a full year that this indicator ...

Colonial First State adds global equity capability

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... equity markets. It uses the same investment insight as T. Rowe Price's Global Equity Fund (Hedged and Unhedged) and Asia ex-Japan Fund, which are currently available to Australian retail investors. It has raised over $1.6 billion from Australian clients ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... stoked speculations that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. This was not the case for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - which given deteriorating fundamentals have to keep on running just to stay still. It jumped the gun, announcing an ...

AMP Capital names new chair

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... Strategy&) where she led the financial services practice in global markets and was the executive chairman of Booz & Company (Japan) Inc. Clark said Wallace's appointment follows a well-considered and disciplined transition. "After joining the AMP Capital ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
Another stimulus package for Japan Japan has announced a stimulus package containing a raft of infrastructure and welfare measures in yet another attempt to jolt the nation's economy back to life. The package, headlined at A$350 billion if you include ...

Contango appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
Contango MicroCap has appointed a new director. Alistair Drummond joins the Contango board having been a senior portfolio manager at Contango Asset Management since 2015. This was his second stint on Contango Asset Management's investment team; he was ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... are already deals or deals still being negotiated, with Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, Chile, ASEAN, Malaysia, Korea, Japan, China and the US. Indonesia has a population of more than 255 million, 10-times that of Australia, and its middle class of ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... so rapidly that by 2050 it is estimated there could be as many as 1 million centenarians, up 100% on current numbers. In Japan the number of centenarians is growing so fast that the Japan Times news service recently reported they no longer receive a ...

Japanese pension fund continues ESG commitment

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is planning to host about 20 of the world's largest asset owners for an ESG investment forum later this year. The Global Asset Owners' Forum will continue the fund's obligation to better understand responsible ...