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Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... index remains 1.1 per cent slimmer so far this year - outperforming only the Nikkei-225's 3.2 per cent decline and the Shanghai Composite's 13.3 per cent drop. I'm sure everybody understands why the Japanese and Chinese bourses are on the slide. Tokyo's ...

Property recovery reignites super fund war

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... cities for office rents and that they are continuing to accelerate. The global leaders are London, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai, Singapore, with Sydney in sixth place. The rental push has contributed to the 9 per cent rolling annual returns now being delivered ...

ANZ invests more in BoT

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... growth agenda, seeking to raise a total of A$629 million. Last month, ANZ said it would also invest $250 million in the Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank (SRCB) capital raising, investments ANZ said are in line with the bank's commitment to China and its ...

ASF to distribute QFII fund in Aus

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... equities through Hong Kong's "H share" market, which is generally perceived to be more liquid and transparent than the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets, but also because QFII licenses are had to come by. ASF's investment director Sally Humphris said that ...

Singapore makes $8.4bn grab for ASX

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... Management said the deal could provide the scale the SGX needs to effectively compete with the burgeoning Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges. The concern for the local industry, however, is that the Australian bourse could be consigned to being merely ...

ANZ to open Chengdu centre

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... Operating in China since 1986, ANZ will be locally incorporated in China from 1 October 2010 with branches in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and a rural bank in Liangping county in Chongqing. Pending final regulatory approvals, ANZ will open a branch ...

Market Wrap - Midday

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... said the Asian markets had opened strongly following robust Wall Street gains on Friday and record-high gold prices. The Shanghai Composite Index had returned to trading after a three-day close last week for the Mid-Autumn Festival, she said. At midday ...

Aviva appoints senior roles in Asia Pacific

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... while also having experience as board member and managing director at Macquarie Goodman Asia and managing director at Shanghai, CB Richard Ellis Asia. Reporting to McDonald is appointed senior vice president (SVP) of fund management Joe Gooi, a role ...

Europeans flock to Asian stocks

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Index. Despite China's "spectacular" growth, Urquhart does not expect global financial markets to take their lead from the Shanghai composite any time soon, explaining that mainland Chinese equity markets remain very much a local market, heavily influenced ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... that a residential site in Kowloon had been triggered for sale after it accepted a developer's minimum guaranteed bid. SHANGHAI - Chinese shares closed higher. The Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, ended up 40.86 points, or ...