Indonesia and India face structural obstacles to economic growth from the double whammy of weaker currencies and high oil prices. Lack of fuel subsidy reform is holding both back.
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The bank's senior economist, Frederic Neumann, highlights three reasons why investors should be worried as Asian growth appears predicated on pumping economies full of credit.
IMF director for Asia and Pacific, Anoop Singh, sees room for policy change and is positive about domestic consumption, but says collective action on growth drivers in the region is needed.
But the country faces challenges in the form of an overheating property market, renminbi internationalisation and the need to reform a hybrid economic model, argues Pierre Ciret.
Equities should outperform bonds in the long run, but right now theyÆre dangerously overpriced, warns Albert Edwards of SociTtT GTnTrale.
AMP Capital Investors strategist Shane Oliver says the US recession is the biggest threat to Australia, but remains an unlikely scenario.