Awake Australia fair

With some of the largest and most liquid capital markets in Asia Pacific and yield-hungry local asset managers, Australia would seem a natural port of call for Asian companies. Yet until structural reforms are made and local perceptions about Asian risk change, the expectations gap will not be bridged. Australia will end up the loser.

AUSTRALIA HAS LONG entertained an on-off relationship with Asia. Wander around the neat streets of downtown Sydney and it is easy to assume that you must be somewhere near the region: Asians already account for a significant proportion of laid-back Sydneysiders and evidence of their growing influence is everywhere.

Despite this apparent connection to Asia, Australia’s track record in capturing opportunities thrown up by the world’s fastest-growing economic region has been patchy. In its debt capital markets, success has been almost non-existent.

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