“In the very short term, the combination of profit-taking to invest in new issuance after the strong run we have seen [in indices] and the potential for tighter controls on margin financing could see a continuation of the market volatility we have seen in recent weeks,” Luo said. “After a very strong start to the […]
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Mirae eyes China hk crossborder scheme
Mirae Asset Global Investments intends to distribute its products through the mutual recognition of funds initiative between China and Hong Kong, according to Jung Ho Rhee, chief executive and director of Hong Kong business.
Aviva reweights HY bonds from India to China
Asian high yield bonds are undergoing a turnaround phase this quarter as the prospects of Chinese issuers improve following monetary easing measures, according to Tim Jagger, senior vice president and portfolio manager for Asian fixed income at Aviva Investors.
Chinese QE – more curse than blessing?
Expectation is mounting that China is planning its own version of quantitative easing and investors weighing up how to play the world’s most populated country may struggle to assess the situation.
HK, China mutual recognition of funds to take off 1 July
The Securities and Futures Commission and the China Securities Regulatory Commission today said they have signed a cooperation pact for the initiative and agreed on the implementation principles. “The mutual recognition of funds initiative is a major breakthrough in the opening up of the mainland’s funds market to offshore funds,” the SFC’s chairman Carlson Tong […]
Manulife adjusts Korea, India holdings
“We trimmed exposure to India and Korea as we were concerned after the run-up [in markets]. We had different instances when target prices on stocks were reached,” said Csellak in an interview with Fund Selector Asia. Volatile Korea Korea with a 20.7% weighting and India (17%) were still the top country allocations of the Manulife Asian […]
Positive sentiment on Chinese banks ignores govt stranglehold
When the People’s Bank of China imposed a 1% reduction on the required reserve ratio – the amount of cash reserves a bank must hold – on 20 April, bringing the rate down to 18.5%, it triggered a wave of positive sentiment. However, Rothman, investment strategist at Matthews Asia, believes that the hopes of increased […]
Thomas Miller issues China warning
According to Herberts, China’s stock market is exhibiting signs of being in bubble territory as investors flock to get a piece of it. “With China having enjoyed a significant bull run recently, is the bubble about to burst?” he asked. “The Shenzhen and Shanghai markets have more than doubled in a year, and the Shenzhen […]
HEAD-TO-HEAD: BlackRock Asian Dragon vs Investec Asian Equity
Further easing measures are expected as current economic indicators in China have not improved, AXA Investment Managers and Schroder said recently. Separately, Schroder’s recently cautioned on the overheating in China’s market while BlackRock said it would prefer a selective investment approach following the surge in A- and H-shares. In India, managers like Franklin Templeton said they expect Indian markets to rise as […]
BNY Mellon puts forward a provocative scenario
Don’t blindly accept the IMF’s “new mediocre” era of “low growth for a long time”. The synchronisation of rising economic growth in the US, China, Japan and India remains a plausible event, according to the bank’s research. BNY’s “G4 scenario” assumes that Japan’s average annual GDP growth is 2% for the remainder of the decade, […]
