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World Bank-Taking Stock: An Update on Vietnam's Recent Economic Developments (July 2014)-Key Findings
July 8, 2014-- Global growth is projected to pick up to 3.4% in 2015 and 3.5% in 2016, propelled by high-income countries. Developing countries will benefit from these tailwinds, with growth projected to increase from 4.8% in 2014 to 5.5% in 2016.
Regional gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to slow down slightly to 7.0% by 2016, about 2 percentage points slower than the pre-crisis boom years but broadly in line with potential.
Improved global conditions and soft domestic demand have allowed Vietnam to further consolidate gains in macroeconomic stability. Headline inflation fell from a peak of 23% in August 2011 to about 5% in June 2014.
A widening fiscal deficit, however, presents growing macro challenges. The fiscal deficit target of 4.8% of GDP was overshot by 0.5 percentage points in 2013, with a similar outcome expected in 2014. The public debt situation remains sustainable nonetheless, albeit susceptible to systemic shocks.
view the World Bank report-Taking Stock: An Update on Vietnam's Recent Economic Developments
Source: World Bank
BetaShares Australian ETF Review-Half Year Review 2014
July 8, 2014--The recently released Half Yearly Australian ETF Review, where its reported that Australia's exchange traded fund industry continued to soar to record levels in the first half of 2014, hitting a fresh record high market capitalisation of $11.6B as at end June 2014.
Market capitalisation for the industry grew ~ 17% for the half, adding $1.7B to the industry. Over the last twelve months, the industry's growth has been an impressive 52.7%, with market capitalisation growing $4.1B.
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Source: BetaShares
ETFGI: ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex Japan reached US$96.7 billion in assets, a new record high, at the end of Q2 2014
July 7, 2014--ETFs and ETPs listed in Asia Pacific ex Japan gathered US$4.85 Bn in net new assets in June, which pushed assets in the Asia Pacific ex Japan ETF/ETP industry to a new record high of US$96.7 Bn surpassing the prior record of US$94.1 Bn set a year and a half ago in January 2013.
There are now 543 ETFs/ETPs, with 676 listings, from 97 providers listed on 15 exchanges in 12 countries, according to preliminary data from ETFGI’s end Q2 2014 Global ETF and ETP industry insights report.
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Source: ETFGI
Trading on India's BSE Halted for Hours on Technical Glitch
July 3, 2014--Trading on the Mumbai stock exchange, BSE Ltd., was shut for more than three hours Thursday as a technical glitch brought buying and selling to a halt on Asia's oldest exchange.
Problems at the exchange, home to the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex, started shortly after the market opened. Index levels and stock prices on the stock exchange's system weren't updating to reflect the latest trades. All trading in stocks, derivatives and currencies on the exchange was quickly halted. Some traders waited but others were forced to switch their buying and selling to the National Stock Exchange, India's largest exchange in terms of trading volume.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
PSE to upgrade to Nasdaq system next yr
July 2, 2014--The operator of the country's stock exchange is replacing its electronic trading system next year as it moves to expand its trading capabilities and offerings.
In a disclosure, the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) said it signed an agreement for Nasdaq OMX to deliver the industry-leading trading technology X-stream Trading to the local bourse operator.
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Source: philstar.com
DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Asia-Pac-Weekly ETF Market Review-Taiwan focused ETFs witness $2.2bn inflows
June 25, 2014--Data in this report is as of 20 June 2014.
Market Review
Last week, markets were mixed in the Asia-Pacific region. Compared to the
week before, from north to south:
Japan (Nikkei 225) +1.67%
South Korea (KOSPI2) -1.33%
China (CSI 300) -1.82%
Hong Kong (HSI) -0.54%
Singapore (FSSTI) -1.05%
Australia (S&P/ASX 200) +0.27%
Taiwan (TWSE) +0.84%
New Product Launch Review
During last week no new ETP was listed in the Asia-Pacific region. ETP Weekly Flows - Taiwan saw inflows, outflows from Japan Asia-Pacific ETP market recorded inflows of +$2.1bn during last week (- $433mn over the prev. week), setting the YTD weekly flows average at +$602mn (+$14.5bn in YTD flows). Developed markets benchmarked ETFs recorded outflows of -$612mn led by Japan focused ETFs (-$684mn). Emerging markets ETFs reversed the previous week’s trend by entering into positive territory and registered inflows of +$2.5bn (-$124mn over the prev. week), primarily from Taiwan focused ETFs (+$2.2bn). At sub segment level, leveraged long ETFs registered inflows of +$0.2bn over the same period. Winners and losers: At ETP level, Polaris MSCI Taiwan Index Fund (006203 TT), Taiwan Top50 Tracker Fund (TTT) (0050 TT) and Harvest Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 Index ETF (159919 CH) were the largest flows receivers of the week collecting +$1.7bn, +$426mn and +$230mn respectively. Over the same period, biggest outflows were experienced by Daiwa ETF - Nikkei 225 (1320 JP), Daiwa ETF-Topix (1305 JP) and Samsung KODEX 200 (069500 KS) recording -$553mn, -$151mn and -$139mn of outflows respectively. Turnover Review-Floor activity up by 13.1%
Asia-Pacific ETP turnover totaled $15.6bn for the last week, 13.1% up from the previous week’s total. On a country level, stock exchanges in China topped the turnover ranking with aggregate turnover of $5.7bn, 35% up as compared to previous week, followed by Japan ($5bn, +29%), South Korea ($3.1bn, +10.6%), and Hong Kong ($1.4bn, -11.6%). Among equity ETFs Emerging country, leveraged long strategy, Asia-Pac developed country, and short strategy ETFs were the most traded products recording total turnovers of $4.9bn, $4.9bn, $1.4bn and $0.7bn respectively. Within fixed income ETFs, money market ETFs recorded turnover of $2.3bn (+25%) over the last week.
Assets under Management Review- Assets increased by $3bn
Asia-Pac ETP AUM closed the week at $183bn after weekly gains of $2.8bn. On a year-to-date basis, Asia-Pac ETP market is up by $13.9bn or 8.2% above last year’s closing.
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Source: Deutsche Bank-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Asia
China's 'Shadow Banks' Fan Debt-Bubble Fears
June 25, 2014--In a 52-story office tower overlooking the leafy streets of this city's embassy district, some 400 deal makers at Citic Trust Co. arrange financing for property developers, steel mills and other businesses starved for cash and shunned by China's traditional banks.
The lenders at Citic and other institutions that make up China's "shadow banks" have created the closest thing China has to the culture of Wall Street.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
India in a Strong Position to Tap Global Growth, says New World Bank Report
June 20, 2014--Unlike most developing countries, India's recent growth has been well below potential, which provides space for economic activity to accelerate without building inflationary pressures.
Global Economic Prospects 2014, presented in New Delhi today, says growth in India is projected at 5.5% in FY2014-15, accelerating to 6.3% in 2015-16 and 6.6% in 2016-17. This comes at a time when the outlook for most other developing countries is largely flat as they have by now recovered from the crisis and are growing close to potential...
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Source: World Bank
Korea: Implement reforms to develop a creative economy, OECD says
June 17, 2014-- Korea needs to move away from its current economic model and implement a range of reforms to develop a creative economy that can sustain long-term growth, according to the latest OECD Economic Survey of Korea.
The strategy should be accompanied by new measures to reduce income inequality and poverty, particularly among the elderly, the OECD said.
The Survey notes that Korea's short-term economic outlook is positive, with growth of around 4% projected over the 2014-15 period. Its longer-term prospects, however, are limited by persistent structural problems, such as a lagging service sector and weak small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), reflecting the traditional growth strategy centred on exports by large chaebol companies.
view the OECD Overview of the Economic Survey of Korea
Source: OECD
Leading Global Fund Manager Vanguard Launches Three New ETFs
Three new low-cost ways for Hong Kong investors to build their portfolios
June 13, 2014--Vanguard, the world's largest mutual fund company(1) and a leader in low-cost investing, is expanding its product offering with three new Hong Kong-domiciled exchange traded funds (ETFs).
The new ETFs will begin trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today and will bring the number of Vanguard ETF offerings in the Hong Kong market to four. In 2013, Vanguard introduced its first ETF in the market: Vanguard FTSE Asia ex Japan Index ETF (2805).
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Source: acnnewswire.com