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Japan looks for growth from Islamic finance boom
April 6, 2015--Japan is the latest global financial hub to start making inroads into Islamic finance, a move that could help strengthen regional economic ties and give its lenders an edge in winning business in markets whose growth prospects far outpace their home turf.
Tokyo has long been a major provider of financial assistance for developing countries and its banks are active across Asia and the Middle East, but until now Islamic finance has played a minor role.
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Source: Japan Today
BOJ's easing said unsustainable
April 6, 2015--The launch of aggressive monetary easing by the Bank of Japan stunned financial markets two years ago.
But is it still sustainable? If not, how long can it continue?
The main component of BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda’s monetary easing is the massive purchases of long-term Japanese government bonds from financial institutions.
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Source: Japan Times
India-100 foreign funds get tax demands; total bill may hit $10-bn
April 5, 2015--In the biggest-ever tax demand slapped on them, nearly 100 foreign funds have been asked to cough up an estimated $5-6 billion for 'untaxed '.
made by them in the Indian markets over the past years.
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Source: The Economic Times
TSE head Kiyota to become CEO of Japan Exchange Group
April 3, 2015--Tokyo Stock Exchange Inc. President Akira Kiyota will succeed Atsushi Saito as CEO of the bourse's parent, Japan Exchange Group Inc., sources said Friday.
Saito, 75, will retire after serving as head of Japan Exchange Group for two years since its launch following the merger of the nation's two biggest exchanges, in Tokyo and Osaka.
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Source: The Japan Times
New ETFs Included in Real-Time Dissemination of "TSE Indicative NAV"(DIAM ETF Nikkei225)
April 3, 2015--Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) will newly calculate and publish the real-time Indicative Net Asset Value (Indicative NAV) per share for the below Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on our website beginning April 3, 2015.
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Source: Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE)
BetaShares-Bassanese's Market Insights: Economic outlook-downside risks remain
March 31, 2015--The long hoped for rebalancing in economic growth toward housing construction and non-mining business investment faces new a threat -namely emerging signs of excess capacity in these key sectors.
This adds more downside risk to the economy over the coming year, and affirms our view that both interest rates and the $A have much further to fall.
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Source: BetaShares
S&P Dow Jones Indices-Asia Pacific Index Dashboard
March 31, 2015--The S&P Pan Asia BMI finished March with a 0.8% gain, making it 6.7% for the quarter.
Materials and Energy lagged among S&P Pan Asia BMI sectors in March, with Health Care and Consumer Staples leading the pack.
Japan's financial year ended with the S&P TOPIX 150 up by over 2% for the month, 10% for the quarter and 30% for the year.
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Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
S&P Dow Jones Indices-India Index Dashboard
March 31, 2015--India's equity markets suffered in March as the S&P BSE SENSEX recorded a loss of 4.6%.
Nonetheless, the markets have completed a positive quarter and, with Indian corporates closing the books on the financial year, the 12-month returns remain stellar.
Financials and commodity-related companies were best avoided this month and this quarter. Health Care, on the other hand, was by far the best performer and achieved a hat-trick: the best-performing sector this month, quarter and financial year.
Chinese asset-management growth seen outstripping regulation view more IMF Working Paper-Assessing China's Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities view the IMF Working Paper-Assessing China's Corporate Sector Vulnerabilities If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us for assistace.
Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices
March 31, 2015--China's asset-management industry is expanding quickly, spurring a need for more regulation, senior officials say.
Asset management has opened to banks, insurers, brokers and others, and "their standards in regulation are not 100% the same,", said Zhang Hongli, vice president of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.
Source: Smart Brief
March 30, 2015--Summary: This paper documents and assesses the risk stemming from rising corporate indebtedness in China using a firm-level dataset of listed firms. It finds that while leverage on average is not high, there is a fat tail of highly leveraged firms accounting for a significant share of total corporate debt, mainly concentrated in the real estate and construction sector and state-owned enterprises in general.
The real estate and construction firms tend to face lower borrowing costs and could withstand a modest increase of interest rate shocks despite their high leverage. The corporate sector is however vulnerable to a significant slowdown in the real estate and construction sector. Our sensitivity analysis suggests that the share of debt that would be in financial distress would rise to about a quarter of total listed firm debt in the event of a 20 percent decline in real estate and construction profits.
Source: IMF
