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China Seen Firing a Warning Shot at Bears in Yuan Defense
September 8, 2016--Hong Kong yuan borrowing rate surges to seven-month high
Central bank signaling it won't allow one-way bets: DBS
China's central bank is making its tolerance levels clear to yuan speculators.
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Source: Bloomberg
Laurent Renaud named Lyxor's CEO in Japan
September 7, 2016--Laurent Renaud has joined Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) as its chief executive officer (CEO) in Japan, effective immediately.
He succeeds Toshiro Kubozono as CEO, who has retired after nine years in the role.
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Source: asiaasset.com
Bursa Malaysia launches end-to-end Shariah investing platform
September 6, 2016--BURSA Malaysia Bhd has launched Bursa Malaysia-I, the world's first end-to-end integrated Islamic securities exchange platform that offers investors the choice to invest and trade Shariah-compliant products via a Shariah-compliant platform.
Bursa Malaysia-i incorporates the full range of Shariah-compliant exchange-related services including listing, trading, clearing, settlement and depository services.
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Source: themalaysianreserve.com
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change launches with sights set on $7.7tr investment opportunity
September 6, 2016--New group publishes review of Asian climate finance sector, revealing growing engagement with green investment
The Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) was officially launched today at an event in Singapore, bringing together some of the region's most influential institutional investors to call for more effective green finance policies.
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Source: businessgreen.com
IMF Working Paper-Rebalancing in China-Progress and Prospects
September 6, 2016---Summary: China is transitioning to a greener, more inclusive, more consumer and service based, and less credit-driven economy.
This paper defines a framework for assessing rebalancing, reviews progress, and discusses medium-term prospects. External rebalancing has advanced well, while progress on internal rebalancing has been mixed, with substantial progress on the supply side, moderate progress on the demand side, and limited progress on the credit side. Rebalancing on income equality and environment has also been mixed, with the energy intensity of growth falling and labor's share of income rising, but income inequality and local air pollution remaining very high. Going forward, the high national saving is expected to fall owing to demographic change and a stronger social safety net, while the investment ratio is expected to fall similarly, with increasing competition and profit normalization as growth slows. The service sector will continue to gain importance, helping reduce the carbon intensity of output and increase labor's share of national income and household consumption. Reducing the credit intensity of growth is likely to progress slowly unless decisive corporate restructuring and SOE reforms are implemented.
China central bank outlines rules on investment quotas under RQFII
September 5, 2016--China's central bank on Monday outlined rules on investment quotas under the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) programme.
RQFII investors seeking investment quotas will be given quotas no greater than a certain proportion of the asset's size, if they qualify for the scheme, the People's Bank of China said in a notice on its website.
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Source: businesstimes.com.sg
Foreign Investors Turn Sellers in Vietnam After 10-Year Spree
August 30, 2016--They have pumped $3.4 billion in nation's stocks since 2006
Benchmark share index is near the highest in eight years
Foreign investors' infatuation with Vietnam is waning.
After pumping in $3.4 billion since 2006, overseas traders are set to be net sellers of assets traded on Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange this year for the first time in a decade, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Source: Bloomberg
BetaShares Weekly Newsletter-Is it time to buy global banks?
August 30, 2016--With expectations rising that the United States Federal Reserve may re-commence its interest rate tightening schedule as early as next month, one potential investment opportunity could be the downtrodden global banking sector.
Indeed, it may surprise some investors to know that rising short-term interest rates can in fact help profitability for some global banks, as it helps fatten net-interest margins (NIMs).
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Source: BetaShares
China Stock Traders Bet $305 Million on Military Tensions
August 30, 2016--Three funds to launch ETFs tracking defense companies
China expected to upgrade its military facilities: GF Fund.
China's stock investors are making a $305 million bet on the nation's military complex.
That's the total that Guotai Asset Management Co., GF Fund Management Co. and Fortune SG Fund Management Co. raised since July from selling the nation's first exchange-traded funds following defense shares.
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Source: Bloomberg
Chinese Banks Step Up Bad-Loan Write-Offs
August 30, 2016--Lenders seek to improve future profitability despite country's economic slowdown.
China's largest banks are writing off huge volumes of soured loans in an effort to clean up their balance sheets, as they look to improve their future profitability despite the country’s economic slowdown.
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Source: Wall Street Journal