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Indonesia’s middle class comes of age

November 18, 2010--Dini Shanti, a web marketer, struggled for years to pay the rent and put food on the table for her two children

Yet in the past 24 months she has moved into a new home, bought her retired father a car and begun paying into investment funds and a life assurance policy.

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Source: FT.com


South Korea to reimpose tax on bonds

November 18, 2010--South Korea will reimpose a withholding tax on foreign investors’ earnings from government bonds in a move that mirrors

initiatives in many other countries trying to stabilise their currencies. The decision on Thursday to restore the 14 per cent tax comes days after

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Source: FT.com


India needs ‘quantum step’ in investment

November 17, 2010-India’s central bank governor has warned that the country needs a "quantum step" in investment to achieve the ambitious double-digit economic growth rate forecast by Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister.

The warning from Duvvuri Subbarao flies in the face of the growing belief in India and overseas that the country can outpace China by moving from its current 8.5 per cent growth to 10 per cent growth over the next three to five years.

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Source: FT.com


China eyes price controls to fight inflation

November 16, 2010--China is considering a package of price controls and other measures to contain inflation which rose sharply last month and has become the principal risk to the economy.

The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s main economic planning body, is putting together a “one-two punch” of policies to ...P>read more

Source: FT.com


DB Global Equity Index & ETF Research : Asia Pacific ETP Market Weekly Review

November 16, 2010--Market Overview
There are 243 equity based ETFs in the Asia Pacific region with 336 listings across 12 countries and 15 exchanges. Japan has the largest market share by AUM accounting for 38.96% of the whole market, whilst China has the largest market share by turnover with 41.70%. There was no new listing last week.

Turnover
Monthly average daily turnover rose 5.5% in the last week. Turnover for the previous week was USD 1,660m. The largest ETF by turnover was the iShares Asia Trust - iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker issued by BlackRock with USD 328m accounting for 19.8% of total turnover.

Assets Under Management

AUM declined 2.8% in the previous week. AUM as of November 12nd was USD 76.5bn. The largest ETF by AUM is the TOPIX ETF managed by Nomura Asset Management with AUM of USD 9.2bn.

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Source: Deutsche Bank Global Equity Index & ETF Research


Gold ETF volumes almost double in Oct on yr

November 16, 2010-- India's gold collections under exchange traded funds almost doubled in October to 13.999 tonnes on year, indicating sustained interest in the yellow metal from investors , data from the funds showed

Gold on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) was trading 0.45 per cent lower at RS20,131 per 10 grams on Tuesday, after gaining 16.7 per cent on year.

Though gold collections under ETFs are growing, they remain miniscule against India's imports of about 400-800 tonnes annually.

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Source: The Economic Times


Japan: improve the environment to boost economic growth, says OECD

November 16, 2010--Japan should do more to fight climate change and protect biodiversity, according to a new OECD review of its environment. Tackling these two problems would improve the environment and help boost long-term growth.

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurrìa commends Japan for addressing environment as part of the response to the economic and financial crisis. Japan has already allocated USD 28 billion – about 16% of the anti-crisis package – to environment related measures.

However, OECD’s Environmental Performance Review of Japan says the stimulus package includes support for agriculture and for the car industry which could have negative effects on the environment and distort competition.

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Source: OECD


SGX starts OTC derivatives clearing in Asia

November 15, 2010--The Singapore Exchange has begun central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) financial derivatives with the launch of the first such platform in Asia.

Clearing houses take on the risk that a party to a trade defaults, spreading the risk among its members. Most OTC trading is carried out on a bilateral basis, which means much of the risk of default is carried by the financial institution involved.

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Source: FT.com


SSE 380 Index To Be Launched

November 15, 2010--To further enhance the SSE index family as well as to provide investors with the new underlying instrument, SSE and CSI together announced today that the SSE 380 Index would be launched on November 29, 2010.

The base date is December 31, 2003 and the base value is 1000.

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Source: SSE


Shanghai Stock Market to Welcome New Emerging Blue-chip Index as SSE 380 Index to Be Launched

November 15, 2010--The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) and China Securities Index Co., Ltd. (CSI) have recently announced that the SSE 380 Index would be officially launched on November 29, 2010, with the base day on December 31, 2003 and the base point at 1,000 points.

After more than two decades of development, a multi-layer capital market featured with big-cap blue chips and boasting joint growth of small, medium and large sized enterprises has taken shape in Shanghai. Moreover, the ever-improving SSE index system, which at present covers such series as scale, sector, style, strategy and theme, provides investors with tools to analyze the SSE-listed companies in a multi-level and multi-angle manner. To adapt to the SSE's development strategy of blue-chip market, better reflect the market structure and its development, and enrich the SSE index system, the SSE and CSI plan to release the SSE 380 Index.

Different from the SSE 180 Index which focuses on traditional big-cap blue chips in finance, energy, material and industry sectors, the SSE 380 Index puts its spotlight on emerging growing blue chips to mirror the overall performance of an array of medium-sized listed companies with great growth potential and strong profitability which are not traditional blue chips. Most of these companies are in their rapid growth phase or early part of maturity stage and in energy-saving and environmental protection, new-generation information technology, biology, high-end equipment, new energy, new material and other emerging industries and consumption sectors. As they indicate the strategic direction of national economic development and the direction of economic restructuring, they are usually called emerging blue-chip companies. The SSE 380 Index, SSE 180 Index and SSE 50 Index will jointly constitute the major blue-chip indices of Shanghai market.

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Source: Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE)


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