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Financial services leading Australian M&A

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... in Australia's agribusiness sector, with many reaping the benefits already of recently effected FTA's - beef exports to Japan have experienced an 86% increase, and horticulture exports to Korea are also up - making these companies ideal targets for M&A ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... earnings increasing by 0.2% (2.1% year-on-year). Stronger-than-expected outcomes could bring back April rate hike speculations. Japan industrial production China's Lunar new Year holiday and Toyota's temporary production stoppage (following an explosion ...

Nikko handed Japanese fixed income mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... assets to the global market. The size of the mandate was not revealed. "Building on Nikko AM's strong client relationships in Japan and our investment skills in Australia, we have been able to tailor a specialised solution for our client," head of Australian ...

T. Rowe Price names Japan country head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
T. Rowe Price has named Naoyuki Honda as its new country head for Japan. A thirty-year veteran of the financial services and asset management industries, Honda will join the firm in early May after a filing with Japanese regulators. He will lead T. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... Exports dropped by 10.4% to HK$205.5 billion in the year to February with shipments to China falling by 6.4%. Exports to Japan declined by 17.1% while those to the US and the UK decreased by 23.2% and 26.6%, respectively. Imports decreased by 10.1% to ...

Munich Re Australasia MD and global CEO step down

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... November 2005, was previously general manager non-life at Munich Re Australasia. Prior to that, he was president at Munich Re Japan Services K.K., after being chief executive at Munich Re Co. Liaison Office. Munich Re also announced that chief executive ...

International pension fund creates stewardship group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... "Stewardship Enhancement Group" as part of an obligation it sees to increase understanding of responsible investment principles. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) recently created the Stewardship Enhancement Group to discuss the fund's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... to January as shipments to the ASEAN countries (-9.5%), China (-8.6%) and Singapore (-8.6%) declined. However, exports to Japan (+7.7%), the US (+0.7%) and Europe (+3.8%) increased. Philippine imports jumped by 30.8% with foreign purchases for most categories ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... year, putting the region on course for a 0.3% expansion of GDP in the first quarter." (Markit Economics) Markit/Nikkei flash Japan manufacturing PMI Markit/Nikkei's reports that one of the key factors for the first sub-50 reading since April 2015 in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... economy and the problems trade-dependent countries face. Export orders from the major countries all fell from a year ago: Japan (down 26.1%); China (down 12.1%); US (down 4.5%); Europe (down 1.1%). Taiwan has just come out of recession with GDP growing ...