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Phillip Zhong

CKA's Bid for Australia's APA Group Is Strategically Positive, but FVE Unchanged

CK Asset Holdings, or CKA, has announced that it is part of a consortium that submitted a nonbinding indicative proposal to acquire APA Group, an Australian utility company. We view the bid as positive, reflecting the company’s continued strategy of redeploying capital from real estate into other businesses offering stable yields. Given the elevated price level of Hong Kong real estate and a rising interest-rate environment, we believe reduced exposure to the Hong Kong property market is positiv...
Underlying
CK Asset Holdings Limited

CK Asset Holdings and its subsidiaries are engaged in the property development and investment; hotel and serviced suite operation; property and project management; and aircraft leasing business.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Phillip Zhong

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