Fleeing Hong Kong capital rushes into Aussie…guess?

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Via The Australian comes the Gottiboff nightmare:

In Sydney, the wealth management arm of global investment bank Citi reports a 50 per cent lift in “funds flow” out of Hong Kong and into Australia.

Anthony Si, an investment specialist at Citi says, “high net worth clients view Australia as a safe haven during political unrest in Hong Kong and that’s coupled with the Australians dollar nearing a 10-year low against the US.”

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.