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China's economy plows on as world’s only major growth engine
October 19, 2020--China's recovery from the coronavirus pandemic continued in the third quarter and showed signs of broadening in September as consumer spending accelerated, keeping the economy on track to be the world's only major one to grow this year.
Gross domestic product expanded 4.9% in the third quarter from a year ago, missing economists' forecast for a 5.5% expansion. Both retail sales and industrial production gained momentum in September, reassuring markets that the recovery is on track.
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Source: news24.com
JPMorgan Asset Management plans ESG ETFs for Asian clients
October 15, 2020--JPMorgan Asset Management is looking to offer Asian institutional investors a range of environmental, social and governance exchange traded funds, as well as thematic and sector-based ETFs.
The US-headquartered fund manager has yet to list any pure ESG or thematic ETFs in any market.
But rising investor demand in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as an increasing number of fund launches across the industry in those investment areas, is driving development.view more
Source: FT.com
China's stock market value hits record high of more than $10tn
October 14, 2020--The total value of China's stock market has climbed to a record high of more than $10tn, as the country's accelerating economic recovery propelled it past the previous peak hit during an equities bubble five years ago.
The market capitalisation of all shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen hit $10.08tn according to Bloomberg data compiled on Wednesday based on the previous day's close. The benchmark CSI 300 slipped 0.6 per cent on Wednesday.
That is above the $10.05tn pinnacle hit in June 2015 immediately prior to a historic rout sparked by a crackdown on leveraged trading, which resulted in the Chinese market plunging by half.
The CSI 300 has rallied by about 17 per cent this year, compared to 9 per cent for Wall Street's S&P 500.
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Source: technocodex.com
India Needs to Sustain Reforms to Stem Economic Slowdown
October 8, 2020 – Faced with an unprecedented downturn, India needs to continue with critical reforms to reverse the sudden and steep impacts of COVID-19 on its economy, says the World Bank in its twice-a-year-regional update.
Released today, the latest South Asia Economic Focus forecasts a sharper than expected economic slump across the region, with regional growth expected to contract by 7.7 percent in 2020, after topping 6 percent annually in the past five years. India's economy, the region’s largest, is expected to contract by 9.6 percent in the fiscal year that started in March 2020. India’s growth is projected to rebound to 5.4 percent in FY22, mostly reflecting base effects, assuming COVID-related restrictions are completely lifted by 2022. Weak activity, domestically and abroad, is also likely to depress both Indian imports and exports.
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Source: World Bank
Vanguard faces roboadviser competition from Chinese partner
October 8, 2020--Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group plans to upgrade its fund portfolio services provision in a move that could bring it into direct competition with Bang Ni Tou, its roboadviser platform that it launched as joint venture with Vanguard.
Ant currently offers 13 fund portfolio services operated by 10 different Chinese fund houses, including six Sino-foreign joint ventures, that range from very conservative to riskier strategies, information from Alipay shows.
However, Huang Hao, president of digital finance business group at Ant, has said that China's largest online wealth platform aims to supply more asset managers with proprietary artificial intelligence to allow them to offer discretionary roboadvisory services.
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Source: technocodex.com
South Asia: Worst Economic Plunge, Informal Workers Hit Hardest
October 8, 2020--South Asia is set to plunge into its worst-ever recession as the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on the region's economies linger on, taking a disproportionate toll on informal workers and pushing millions of South Asians into extreme poverty, says the World Bank in its twice-a-year-regional update.
Released today, the latest South Asia Economic Focus Beaten or Broken? forecasts a sharper than expected economic slump across the region, with regional growth expected to contract by 7.7 percent in 2020, after topping 6 percent annually in the past five years. India’s economy, the region's largest, is expected to contract by 9.6 percent in the fiscal year that started in March 2020. Regional growth is projected to rebound to 4.5 percent in 2021.
Factoring in population growth, however, income-per-capita in the region will remain 6 percent below 2019 estimates, indicating that the expected rebound will not offset the lasting economic damage caused by the pandemic.
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Source: World Bank
ETFs struggle to gain traction in Malaysia
October 6, 2020--A lack of distributors willing to market and promote exchange traded funds, as well as a belief that ETFs deliver lower returns, are holding back the growth of the industry in Malaysia, experts say.
The first ETF in Malaysia was launched in 2005 and 19 ETFs are now listed on the Malaysian stock exchange. Their combined assets amounted to just $551.16m as of end-August, accounting for less than 1 per cent of the total of $71.62bn held in domestic mutual funds, according to data from Morningstar.
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Source: technocodex.com
Tokyo Stock Exchange suspends day's trade after worst-ever system glitch
October 1, 2020--The Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended share trading for the full day on Thursday as a glitch in its electronic trading system caused the worst outage ever suffered by the world’s third-largest stock market.
The shutdown frustrated investors looking to buy back shares after the first U.S. presidential debate, and could tarnish the exchange's credibility just as new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga makes digitalisation a top priority and Tokyo looks to replace Hong Kong as Asia's financial hub.
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Source: reuters.com
Yuan set for best quarter since 2008 global financial crisis
September 30, 2020-- The yuan inched up against the dollar on Wednesday, underpinned by upbeat manufacturing data, with the Chinese unit on course for its best quarter since the global financial crisis in 2008.
China's factory activity extended solid growth in September, according to both official and private surveys, as the nation's crucial exports engine revved up on improving overseas demand and also underlined a steady economic recovery from the coronavirus shock.
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Source: reuters.com
East Asia and Pacific: Pandemic "Triple Shock" Hitting Economies Across Region
September 28, 2020--While economic activity is reviving in some countries, long-term threats to growth and poverty reduction remain
COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession brought on by the crisis.
Swift action will be needed to ensure that the pandemic does not hamper growth and increase poverty for years to come, according to From Containment to Recovery, the World Bank's October 2020 Economic Update for East Asia and the Pacific.
view the World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update October 2020-from Containment to Recovery report
Source: World Bank
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