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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 ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... five years, and around a third invest for less than a year. BoJ expected to go even deeper into negative interest rates Japan' central bank is meeting today and is expected to lower rates again taking their official interest rates even deeper into negative ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... supporting exports were tariff cuts on Australian product into the two largest grainfed beef markets. In response to the Japan Australia Economic Partnership Agreement (JAEPA), the Japanese tariff on frozen beef reduced to 27.5% this year while the tariff ...

Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... years between 2000 and 2015, the fastest increase since the 1960s, according to recent World Health Organisation (WHO) data. Japan, Singapore and Australia are among the top five countries where people live the longest, with average life expectancies ...

WAM finds returns in growth companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... the equity market outlook for the next 12 months remains mixed. He said ongoing planned global stimulus, particularly in Japan and the UK, will be supportive of equity markets in the near term. On the home front Stott said initial political uncertainty ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... yields have been upturned as a number of key central banks have put negative interest rates in place, including the Bank of Japan (BoJ), the European Central Bank and the central banks of Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Managing director of QIC's Global ...