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Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... appointments to its Hong Kong offices. BNP Paribas Asset Management Hong Kong director and co-head of institutional sales Korea Brian Kim will now be Robeco's head of business development for Korea. A hire from DWS's insurance strategy and advisory business ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... of Brazil and Ecuador have damaged their leadership role in the eyes of EM investors, while countries like Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand are likely to gain from their effective, transparent policies." China, which makes up approximately a third of ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs China more than it needs us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... 34.7% of your exports (based on World Bank figures) that roughly equates to what Australia sells to Japan (16.4%), South Korea (7.0%), India (4.9%), US (3.8%), and Singapore (2.9%) combined. Australian exports account for around 20% of the country's ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... sold-off sectors. Today, markets have dropped on fears of a second wave, with news of fresh cases in Wuhan, Germany and South Korea erasing yesterday's gains. Stocks that led the charge on Monday are now bleeding red. So were Aussie investors, hopeful ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... late last year." South Korea's Early Coronavirus Wins Dim After Rash of New Cases (Wall Street Journal) "SEOUL -- South Korea, which largely succeeded in quelling the initial spread of the coronavirus, is back on the defensive, with Seoul's bars ...

The great fall of China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... numero uno export market on the ropes (buying 32.7% of our total exports as at 2019), the second - Japan (9%) - third - South Korea (5%) - fourth, fifth and down the line are also in line for contractions in their respective economies. While the Reserve ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... "We have historically seen shifts in the investment universe around every decade," he said. "In the 80s countries such as Korea and Japan had the greatest returns, in the 90s it was the US via the tech bubble, and in the 2000s it was China and Emerging ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... recorded on March 19 this year - reducing its 2020 year-to-date loss by more than half to -16.1% from -33.7%. Similarly, South Korea has more than recouped its 5.2% depreciation versus the US dollar, rebounding by 5.4% from the March 19 low. These, perhaps ...

Chief economist update: Credit ratings downgrades versus fiscal salvation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... BOJ increased monetary largesse. This compares with 142,823 cases in China, 21,157 in Italy, 12,729 in Iran; 8162 in South Korea and even lower than the 1678 reported cases in the US... at the time. covidjapan.com data shows that as of April 6, 2020 ...

Mirae appoints wholesale distribution lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... Australian properties, like the Sydney Four Seasons hotel, as a part of its global property portfolio that is managed out of Korea. In the last year, it started a private debt business in Australia managed out of Melbourne. "We are looking to develop ...