It has been three years since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office and Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda launched his aggressive and unconventional monetary policy, characterised by the central bank's enormous balance sheet expansion.
Investors need to be very selective in Asia, not only at the company level but also by country and industry, given very divergent growth trends. However, a more gradual normalisation in US monetary policy, as indicated recently by the US Federal Reserve,...
Inflation below target and rates at negative
Holds less than 10% in direct China exposure
Abi Oladimeji, head of investment strategy at Thomas Miller Investment, outlines the headwinds and tailwinds for Asia.
The long-term, secular trends that have fuelled Asia's rapid growth over the last decade are well known, yet one trend - the burgeoning Asian middle-class consumer - is a secular force that is still only in its early stages, according to T.Rowe Price's...