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Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... data from Thomson Reuters quoted by the BlackRock Investment Institute. However, Chinese mainland shares have experienced sharp falls that have led the authorities to intervene in the stock market. To Watt, those willing to invest in China need to remember ...

Hedge funds face brain drain

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... family offices in Australia could be sanctuaries for ultra-wealthy investors from China and other parts of Asia. He said that sharp market moves in their countries of origin could lead them to pull funds out of Australia without warning, perhaps to cover ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... other currencies, so too is the yuan - making "Made in China" exports less competitive, slowing down their economy. The sharp falls in commodity prices is borne of this. The US dollar is inversely correlated with commodity prices. The main reason of ...

Bangkok bombs and Malaysia's terror

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
The 2.7% drop in Thailand's SET index and the half a percent drop in the Thai baht to 38.58 versus the US dollar - the lowest since April 2009 -- dominated the financial press headlines the day after the night (17 August) Bangkok was bombed. As it should. ...

Empire State bombs out

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
Whoa! If this is an indication of things to come, then you can forget a lift-off in September, or in December... perhaps, forget all about it for all of next year. Yes Virginia, I refer to the drop in the Empire State Manufacturing Index. And girl ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... Greece. Two to go. When the ECB was discussing China back in the middle of July, I'm pretty sure they were concerned about the sharp volatility prompted by the mayhem in the Middle Kingdom's stock markets. That calmed but was replaced by the People's ...

All right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
If you think that the latest US non-farm payrolls report is good enough for the Fed to proceed with a September lift-off, you are correct. You are not wrong too if you think it's not strong enough for the Fed to pull the trigger in September. There's ...

SelectingSuper rejects claim small funds should merge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
SelectingSuper has rejected the reported assertion that super funds with less than $5 billion in assets should be required to merge. In was reported in Fairfax media this morning that a major superannuation research group has said that funds below this ...

Indian economy accelerating/slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... balanced around the target of 6.0 per cent for January 2016". However, the pick-up in economic growth in the March quarter - a sharp one at that - is, to quote Reuters, "at odds with other indicators such as industrial production, trade and tax collection ...

FEATURE: Custody under review

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
Custodians are a vital organ for super funds and asset managers. Darren Snyder explores the trillion-dollar industry. The $2.6 trillion Australian custody market has been highly active during the past 18 months and continues to be watched as several ...