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SET gears up towards collaborative digital asset platform for Thailand's new opportunities
March 27, 2019--The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is developing a
"Collaborative Digital Asset Platform" for the Thai capital market. Today, SET
engaged stakeholders by organizing a special forum gathering over 100
stakeholders to exchange ideas on the digital asset ecosystem development.
The prototype of the platform will be ready later this year.
SET President Pakorn Peetathawatchai said the digital asset platform will be a key stepping stone for The Stock Exchange of Thailand to embrace new technological developments. SET will leverage the new technology to move the Thai capital market towards the next phase of the digitalization with the aim to (1) promote stakeholder collaboration (2) broaden access (3) increase security and (4) enhance efficiency.
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Source: The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)
A crypto venture is launching a tokenized version of the stock market
March 27, 2019--UMA, a smart contracts platform, is bringing the S&P 500 to the blockchain with the launch of a new ERC20 token that'll represent ownership in the largest 500 companies in U.S. financial markets, the company announced Wednesday.
UMA, an entity affiliated with Risk Labs, a Two Sigma Ventures-backed firm, also said the new token would trade on Beijing-based decentralized exchange DDEX, to start. MakerDao, the firm behind stable coin DAI, is also involved in the new token, per the release. Investors looking to buy the token are required to purchase it with DAI.
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Source: theblockcrypto.com
Hang Seng Indexes Licenses Fullgoal Fund to Use Hang Seng China Enterprises Index as Basis for ETF
March 26, 2019--Hang Seng Indexes Licenses Fullgoal Fund to Use Hang Seng China Enterprises Index as Basis for ETF Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited ('Hang Seng Indexes') has licensed the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index('HSCEI') to Fullgoal Fund Management Co., Ltd. ('Fullgoal Fund') to serve as the underlying index for the creation of an exchange-traded fund ('ETF').
The ETF was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on 26 March 2019
Comprised of large-cap mainland China enterprises listed in Hong Kong, the HSCEI is a barometer of the China market in Hong Kong. The HSCEI has 50 constituents: 40 H-shares and 10 Red-chips and P-chips.
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Source: Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited
Australian exchange could shorten settlement with blockchain
March 22, 2019--ASX will seek comment on quicker settlement of cash stocks-possibly the same day
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) could shrink settlement times for cash equities through the use of blockchain, and will be seeking feedback from its clients on the idea.
Currently, cash stock trades are settled over two business days, or in industry parlance, T+2 (transaction date plus two). Using the distributed ledger technology (DLT) of blockchain, the ASX confirmed that period could be condensed; others speculated it could be as little as four hours.
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Source: risk.net
Port in the storm? Hybrids performance during market sell-offs
March 20, 2019--In the face of market volatility, how do hybrids fare against equities? In this article, we highlight how hybrids have historically produced attractive risk-adjusted returns over time and demonstrated their resilience during equity market slumps.
Hybrid securities last year again demonstrated their ability to hold up well in the face of equity market volatility.
Hybrids: impressive risk-adjusted returns
The Investment Manager of our Active Hybrids Fund (ASX: HBRD) recently wrote a post discussing the strong performance of the hybrids market last year. Indeed, the index of hybrid securities against which the HBRD fund is benchmarked produced a gross return of 4.9% in 2019, compared to a grossed-up loss of 1.5% for the S&P/ASX 200 Equity Index.
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Source: BetaShares
BetaShares-Investment Trends Australian ETF Report
March 20, 2019--In the tenth annual BetaShares/Investment Trends ETF Report, we uncover reasons why the ETF industry continues to prosper, leading to a record number of investors across the Australian ETF market.
Key findings of the report
The insights collected from this round of research are based on responses from around 8,000 investors and 800 advisers:
The number of ETF investors in Australia grew by 22% in the 12 months to October 2018, reaching a record high of 385,000.
The number of investors holding ETFs through an SMSF rose to 120,000 from 105,000 the previous year, an increase of 14%. Diversification and access to overseas markets are the main drivers for this market.
Growth in non-SMSF investors was even stronger, with an increase of more than 24% from 213,000 investors in 2017 to 265,000 in 2018.
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Source: BetaShares
Survey Conducted by SZSE on 2018 Individual Investors
March 19, 2019--To fully understand the basic information of individual investors, track the changes in investor structure and behavioral characteristics, and improve investor education services and protection in a more pertinent and effective way, SZSE organized the 10th survey on individual investors since 2009.
The framework of the survey is similar to previous ones, mainly involving investor structure, educational level, risk preferences, concepts and behaviors, sentiment and expectation, etc. The survey also touches upon investors' opinions on 2019 risk factors in stock market and issues in the capital market.
The geographical distribution of securities accounts is taken into consideration, and stratified sampling is adopted. The respondents are aged 18 to 60, and have traded stocks in either SSE or SZSE in the past 12 months. A total of 24,074 respondents from 331 cities of different sizes nationwide have answered the questionnaires.
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Source: Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE)
China's debt is still piling up-and the pile-up is getting faster
March 19, 2019--With looser monetary policy, China's policymakers hope to encourage banks to lend more to the private sector. This seems to imply a change from the deleveraging drive begun in mid-2017.
Although this should be good news for China's growth in the short term, such a continued accumulation of debt cannot but imply deflationary pressures and a lower potential growth further down the road.
If you think China's monetary policy became more lax in 2018, wait for 2019. Pushed by gloomier activity data, China’s policymakers have moved from an orthodox monetary policy to a much more heterodox one.
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Source: Bruegel
IMF Working paper-The Impact of Rapid Aging and Pension Reform on Savings and the Labor Supply: The
Case of China1
March 18, 2019--Summary:
We study, both empirically and quantitatively, the role of savings and the labor supply in self-insurance channels over the life cycle when one faces not only idiosyncratic income risks, but also changes in longevity risk and pension benefits.
We pick China as a case study since China has undergone a dramatic process of rapid aging and a tremendous reduction in social security benefits for the period 1995-2009. We find that both savings and the labor supply are quantitatively important self-insurance channels in responding to changes in longevity risk and pension benefits, and the responses via adjustment to savings and labor supply have significant macroeconomic implications. Applying the model to China, we find that the pension reform and rapid aging together contribute 55 percent of the increase in the household saving rate from 1995 to 2009, and they jointly capture about 64 percent of the drastic increase in the labor supply for the same period.
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Source: IMF
SET Well-Being Index set for launch on April 1
March 18, 2019--The Stock Exchange of Thailand plans next month to launch the SET Well-Being Index (SETWB), a new index consisting of listed securities in well-being-related sectors that are key contributors to Thai economic expansion, allowing investors to benefit from the growth potential of these promising sectors.
The SET sectors making up the index are: Agribusiness, Commerce, Fashion, Food and Beverage, Health Care Service, Tourism and Leisure, and Transportation and Logistics.
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Source: nationmultimedia.com