News

By Leanne Wang
6 minutes ago
The Labour Pension Fund is offering six equal absolute-return mandates, but its return targets and low fees are criticised.
By Jame DiBiasio
6 minutes ago
Never have mutual-fund industry associations around Asia come together for a common cause, until Fatca.
By Leigh Powell
6 minutes ago
The recruitment of Gary Dugan in Singapore forms part of a hiring spree in the firm's products and services team that is set to continue.
By Georgina Lee | 6 minutes ago
Guidance is needed over new proposals that could hit fund capital gains and damage foreign investment into India.
By Leigh Powell | 1 day ago
He says private banks will win the race for Asia's wealth and explains how he intends to go about it. He talks about his time at Goldman, and what asset managers must do.
By Yvonne Chan | 1 day ago
Private equity is benefiting from the rise of sovereign funds, leading many to expand their investment platforms.
By Jame DiBiasio | 1 day ago
Mansfield Mok joins EFG Asset Management, which is building an investment capability in Hong Kong, while GAM adds Kevin Chan.
By Leigh Powell | 3 days ago
Asia head for iShares, Julius Baer adds China team, UBS bolsters family office, Deutsche starts sec lending desk and Barings hires in institutional sales, among others.
By Leigh Powell | 4 days ago
Experts see a cyclical reordering in emerging markets as LatAm overtakes Asia in appeal, while institutional investors are set to transform market dynamics.
By Leigh Powell | 4 days ago
The consultancy worries Korea's corporate pension plans are so conservative that they may not be able to pay their liabilities over the long-term.
By Joe Marsh | 4 days ago
Jones Lang LaSalle is among those setting up teams in Asia to service wealthy individuals in response to rising interest in real estate.
By Leigh Powell | 4 days ago
The bank adds Wendy Liu from RBS, which is selling its cash equities business to CIMB. Nomura is reshuffling as it builds its Asia equity offering.
By Jame DiBiasio | 5 days ago
FRM’s Japan office is on track to raise $100 million for a Japan-focused strategy of hedge funds.
By Pictet Asset Management | 5 days ago
Amy Cho, Asia-Pacific business development head at Pictet Asset Management, discusses how interest in local- and hard-currency EM debt is gaining critical mass.
By Leigh Powell | 5 days ago
Saying superannuation funds want more international exposure, Challenger buys a stake in an Asian boutique and is targeting other deals.
By Yvonne Chan | 5 days ago
A trend of asset outflows is reversing in Asia, but hedge funds are expected to find capital-raising tough this year.
By Joe Marsh | 5 days ago
State Street has hired its first Asia head of business development for exchange-traded funds to target fund managers, among others.
By Leigh Powell | 6 days ago
Mathews Asia's Robert Horrocks says Greek default would have minimal impact on Asia. The firm talks about its expansion and product plans.
By Yvonne Chan | 6 days ago
Built upon the bank’s custody and fund admin business, HSBC’s fledgling prime brokerage platform will expand to the US after roll-outs in Europe and Asia.
By Leanne Wang | 6 days ago
China’s social security fund aims to plough up to Rmb250 billion into state-owned enterprises and private-equity funds to support the real economy.
By Jame DiBiasio | 6 days ago
James Rickards, partner at JAC Capital Advisors, plugs his book on currency wars by saying the Fed’s quantitative easing puts the world at risk.
By Leanne Wang | 15 May 2012
The regulator improves the process of QFII applications and quotas, easing limits on asset allocation and structured products.
By Joe Marsh | 15 May 2012
Exchanges and governments are largely to blame, with Hong Kong a particular culprit and a profit margin that leaves Apple in the dust.
By Leigh Powell | 15 May 2012
Goldman Sachs Asset Management has hired Masaki Taniguchi as its first head of product development for Asia-Pacific. It aims to tailor its regional offering, including to retail.
By Joe Marsh | 15 May 2012
It continues to rebuild by hiring the ex-head of private bank sales from HSBC to run Asia products and services out of Hong Kong.
By Georgina Lee | 14 May 2012
Institutional investors and asset managers are increasingly using algo strategies and DMA technology in a structural shift, notes JP Morgan's Michael Green.
By DST Global Solutions | 14 May 2012
Using multiple platforms causes administrative headaches and makes a technology solution that provides information in digestible format key to client servicing.
By Jame DiBiasio | 14 May 2012
The former head of real assets at Korea Post says Korean institutional investors are set to pour money into global alternative investments.
By Leanne Wang | 14 May 2012
The nascent sector is still largely funded by foreign investment, but Treasury China Trust expects this to change.
By The Editors | 11 May 2012
HSBC names Asia head of prime services, BoA-Merrill loses Asia cap-intro head, Lothian departs BEA Union, China AMC sees GM step down and Eastspring installs Indonesia team.
By Georgina Lee | 11 May 2012
Australia's move to charge HFT participants based on the number of messages they send to the exchange is self-defeating, but may be copied, warns Deutsche Bank.
By Leigh Powell | 11 May 2012
They reveal a smarter way to work for asset managers, who are expected to focus more on private banks. But institutional sales hold the key.
By Joe Marsh | 11 May 2012
The US fund manager aims to enter retail markets in Malaysia and Vietnam, and build onshore businesses in Taiwan and, ultimately, Indonesia.
By Yvonne Chan | 11 May 2012
Asian sovereigns and pension funds are among investors for the oversubscribed emerging markets private-equity vehicle.
By Leigh Powell | 10 May 2012
The firm hires Sarah Lu from Axa Rosenberg IM Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong as it extends its portfolio solutions group to the region.
By Joe Marsh | 10 May 2012
The use of private banks by Asian family offices is set to shrink in the next few years, say FO executives, who concede they themselves face significant challenges.
By Yvonne Chan | 10 May 2012
The partnership will give the UK hedge fund an inroad to the China market, as CICC expands its alternatives range.
By Nick Lord | 10 May 2012
The regulator bans Yohichi Kumagai of Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (Europe) over failings in a ruling that may deter Japanese firms from expanding into the UK.
By Jame DiBiasio | 9 May 2012
Nobusuke Tamaki, a former official at Bank of Japan and Government Investment Pension Fund, says government bonds may not be as safe as believed.
By Georgina Lee | 9 May 2012
The head of Hong Kong’s securities regulator says it is processing dark pool applications again after a hiatus amid concerns about retail investor protection.
By Leigh Powell | 9 May 2012
Asia’s wealthy are at a point where private investment banking caters to their needs. But asset management will come to the fore, says Francesco de Ferrari at Credit Suisse.
By Dr Insup Lee | 9 May 2012
The president of KTB Private Equity, who left government pension fund GEPS earlier this year, outlines plans to extend overseas collaboration and deal-sourcing.
By Jame DiBiasio | 8 May 2012
The Australian superannuation scheme makes its first Asia-dedicated private investment via funds-of-PE-funds manager Siguler Guff.
By Leigh Powell | 8 May 2012
Here's how we have updated the design and experience of AsianInvestor, both online and in print.
By Yvonne Chan | 8 May 2012
The private equity firm’s third real estate vehicle will have a focus on special situation deals, particularly in Japan and Australia.
By The Editors | 8 May 2012
AsianInvestor hosted its inaugural Japan Institutional Investment Forum at the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo on April 24, 2012.
By Joe Marsh | 7 May 2012
The Korean central bank has chosen a group of transition management providers as asset owners push for greater transparency on transition costs.
By Jame DiBiasio | 7 May 2012
Pension funds in Japan are shifting out of equities and adding alternative exposures, as well as raising Asia allocations, a recent AsianInvestor conference in Tokyo heard.
By Georgina Lee | 7 May 2012
The growth of China's non-bank lending segment is creating space for investment funds, such as Gen2 Partners' vehicle, to offer mezzanine financing to SMEs and developers.
By Leigh Powell | 4 May 2012
Neuberger Berman adds distribution directors, AllianzGI bags fixed income head in Singapore, Mercer transfers Hong Kong office leader and Citic Capital boosts its real estate team.
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