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HSBC’s latest quarterly fund manager survey shows a significant change in investor confidence, with all respondents bullish on equities and none on bonds and cash.
The UK bank is seeking a bigger share of the $60 billion market for sharia-compliant funds under management by globally standardising its securities services offering.
Deutsche Asset Management's institutional arm is mulling specialist products to offset the effects of inflation, as the firm rebuilds its Asia-Pacific business.
Surveys from Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank find North America and Europe hedge funds are recording net inflows at the expense of Asia and emerging-markets funds.
The under-researched continent is growing in appeal. Paul Freer of Alquity IM points out the plus points, having just secured a distribution deal for its Africa fund.
The bank’s asset management arm argues the case for frontier markets over emerging markets, with Nigeria a particular favourite.
Preqin research shows that investors can make calculated guesses about whether active private-equity funds will outperform or underperform peers.
The asset manager fashions a new fund based in Luxembourg and markets it as a smarter way to play Asian currency appreciation than just piling into the CNH market.
Investors are allocating equities to ex-US developed markets while reducing risk in fixed income, says Ross McLellan at State Street Global Markets.
The supply of securities is now healthy, particularly in equities, but demand to borrow them remains relatively weak, says the bank’s global head of financing and markets ...
Michael Hanson-Lawson of East Capital discusses Russia and its neighbours, against the backdrop of the current turmoil in the Middle East and Central Asia.
The German firm is rolling out exchange trading of mutual funds across Asia, cutting the cost and time of buying these products.
The bank's Autobahn FX platform can now handle offshore renminbi trading, which Deutsche expects will broaden access to the currency and improve market liquidity.
Geoffrey Barker of Ballingal Investment Advisors says the bill will come due for China, which is lagging on economic reform, capital market reform and interest rate liberalisati...
One in five say the US dollar will not be the world's reserve currency in five years, but the majority believe continued tightening in China will result in a soft landing for ...