Recent Articles by Rico Ngai
29 January 2001
Double-digit growth rates for the country''s managed funds industry are expected to attract more foreign fund managers.
19 January 2001
Bank of Bermuda adds $1.1 billion to its assets under administration following the purchase of Tiedemann''s back office.
17 January 2001
Japanese brokerage Nomura has produced a new guide to help managers to pick the cheapest stocks by transaction cost.
21 December 2000
India''s hi-tech industry hopes changes in venture capital rules will help pull in $10 billion from foreign investors within five years.
19 December 2000
Marinus Maaskant, ABN Amro Mellon''s CEO, tells why a restructuring was necessary and how sub-custodians should reinvent themselves.
19 December 2000
Bank of Bermuda has dropped Baring from its $1 billion multi-manager investment service for underperformance.
15 December 2000
The 50:50 joint venture plans to launch a series of indices for foreign and domestic investors of derivatives, index funds and exchange traded funds in China.
5 December 2000
The UK manager will focus on winning institutional mandates in Hong Kong''s pensions market instead of becoming a full service provider with a costly distribution network.
29 November 2000
The manager expects the funds will benefit from expected rate falls led by the US in the second quarter of next year.
21 November 2000
Accelerating corporate restructuring and venture capital inflows into Europe will be key to SG new fund''s success.
21 November 2000
Standard Life will shift its $12 billion Asian portfolio from Edinburgh to Hong Kong, with further investment capital to be raised by the insurer''s new local office.
16 November 2000
Slow approval of depositories and sub custodians by Hong Kong''s pensions regulator may botch managers'' investment strategy overseas.
15 November 2000
European managers have trumped their North American peers in the fight to use FTSE instead of MSCI as the benchmark for Hong Kong pension funds.
13 November 2000
Are consultants worth their salt? Marinus Maaskant of ABN AMRO Mellon shares his thought-provoking observations on custody consultants.
9 November 2000
Janus International is set to snare 20% of the fund distribution market through major third party distributors in Asia.