We are looking to add to our team of journalists.
As we reach the end of our reporting for 2009 and close our website until January, here are my favourite stories.
Multi-client segregated accounts are being hyped as the mainland’s answer to hedge funds. They’re not – but they will have their uses.
The consultant highlights those asset classes where active management is more likely to deliver results.
Nomura Asset Management leads the pack of 29 $1 billion-plus fund launches in Asia-Pacific this year.
The Chinese fund house’s prospectus for its Asian equities product, slated for launch next week, indicates it will manage the fund without MOU partner State Street.
Mutual funds of global bonds, emerging-market equities and commodities enjoyed strong inflows in November.
Big banks managing bond funds are the rule. New entrants, new products and a new pension system have the potential to galvanise this sleepy industry.
E-Fund and China Merchants are first to launch new QDII funds after a 17-month drought.
Michael Reed is joining Fidelity International as head of its South Korea business.
Bruno Lee resumes a regional role for the wealth management business and is eager to promote fixed-income products.
Michael Ferrer, who left ING Investment Management in Hong Kong at the start of the year, will lead a new asset management venture in the Philippines.
China’s mutual funds industry enjoyed decent AUM growth in the second quarter, with Bank of Communications Schroders dominating performance of equity products.
For the first time, some mutual funds in China under-perform against leading equity indices.
China Merchants is in negotiations with the postal system to sell funds.
The Hong Kong venture’s real aim is back home in China.
Fidelity''s Bill Wilder describes what it takes to have a successful mutual funds business.
Sam Ip, head of Bank of East Asia''s unit trust agency department, explains why mutual fund uptake should grow.
Derivative funds and capital-protected hedge funds to heal the wounds of mutual fund investors, says product head John McLaughlin.
Investment managers in Shanghai, both foreign and domestic, hope China’s first open-ended mutual funds will launch as early as this summer.