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BetaShares-Sector Rotation and Fundamental vs. Market-Cap Weighted Indices
June 16, 2015--This note explores how the tendency of individual stocks and industry sectors to both overshoot and undershoot their fundamental values over time can affect the performance of traditional market-cap weighted equity indices (MCWIs) relative to "fundamentally weighted" indices (FWIs).
By seeking to avoid the tendency of MCWIs to overweight stocks that are "overvalued" and underweight stocks that are "undervalued", financial' theory suggests FWI's should be able to achieve superior long-term return performance relative to MCWIs. What's more, Australian and US evidence backs up this proposition.
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Source: BetaShares
UPDATE 1-Hong Kong-Shenzhen connect start date not finalised yet-sources
June 16, 2015--Differences over investment quotas, tradable securities
Delay beyond August may risk pushing scheme launch to 2016
May delay inclusion of China A-shares in benchmark indexes
The announcement of the launch date of the landmark Hong Kong-Shenzhen stock market link is on hold due to technical issues, putting at risk China's pledge to have the scheme ready by the year-end, three sources familiar with the situation said.
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Source: Reuters
China's Unsettling Stock Market Boom
June 15, 2015--Something strange is going on in the Chinese stock market.
Even as the country's economy has slowed, stocks have surged about 147 percent in the last 12 months as individual investors have poured their savings and have borrowed money to put into the market.
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Source: New York Times
Chinese investment banks gain clout in Asian bond markets
June 14, 2015--Chinese investment banks are muscling their way into Asia's competitive international bond markets, winning a bigger share of underwriting fees than ever before.
So far this year, Bank of China and its subsidiaries have earned more arranging international bonds for Asian issuers than Goldman Sachs, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters/Freeman Consulting.
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Source: Reuters
China's hedge fund industry blooms as stocks boom
June 14, 2015--More than 4,000 new Chinese hedge and private equity funds have launched in the last three months, fuelling a mass exodus from traditional investment houses, as ambitious fund
managers seek to profit from the country's booming stock market.
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Source: FT.com
Margin trading regulations revised
Regulator forms working group with global index provider MSCI for inclusion of A shares
June 13, 2015--The rules covering investors' use of margin trading and short selling were relaxed on Friday in a draft document released by the China Securities Regulatory Commission.
Deng Ge, the CSRC spokesman, told a news conference that the CSRC will drop restrictions that are no longer compatible with the current conditions involving margin trading, a practice that allows investors to borrow money to purchase stocks, and short selling, which allows them to borrow securities to sell.
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Source: China Daily.com
Thai bourse further promotes investment culture to cope with aging society
June 11, 2015--The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), continues to
focus on financial literacy to promote financial planning among career people
through financial planning project called "Ngern Thong Tong Wang Phan", preparing them to be ready for quality retirement, as the number of Thai senior
citizens is expected to continue to increase in the next 20 years.
This reinforces SET's fifth decade of commitment to create long-term wealth, as such driving sustainable economic growth for Thailand.
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Source: The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)
New listing of Shinhan BNP Paribas SMART
June 9, 2015--Outline of listing
Korea Exchange (KRX) plans to list SMART Mainland China Small Cap CSI500 (Synthetic H) ETF which is managed by Shinhan BNP Paribas Asset Management Co., Ltd in the
KOSPI market on 8thJune 2015.
This product is the first Korean ETF that invests in the performance of the CSI Small Cap 500 Index, one of the series of mainland China Stocks Index (CSI).
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Source: Korea Exchange (KRX)
BetaShares Australian ETF Review: May 2015
June 9, 2015--The Australian exchange traded fund industry reached a new record high of $18.6 billion in funds under management in its sixteenth straight month of positive growth.
The market grew by $900 million over the month, with around 60% of growth coming from market movements and the remaining 40% from new money inflows.
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Source: BetaShares
Japan GDP unexpectedly accelerates in first quarter as firms boost investment
June 9, 2015--Japan's economy expanded much faster than initially expected over January to March as companies ramped up capital investment, underscoring the central bank's view that recovery from last year's recession is gaining momentum.
The economy grew an annualised 3.9 percent in the first three months of this year, Cabinet Office data showed on Monday, handily beating a preliminary estimate of a 2.4 percent gain, and topping a median market estimate for 2.7 percent growth.
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Source: Reuters
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