iShares takes the most net new money into its Asia-Pacific ex-Japan-listed exchange-traded funds in the first quarter, at the expense of firms such as Polaris and State Street ...
The government moves to calm a surge in trading for leveraged ETFs this month by banning credit lending temporarily. Market consensus is in favour.
The company says it has no need to raise funds to meet investment bank capital requirements and will benefit from a massive infrastructure build-up in research and sales.
Mirae Asset's acquisition of Canada's BetaPro will make it the biggest Korean provider of exchange-traded funds, and the fourth largest in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.
The exchange-traded funds market in Korea is growing in terms of product type, asset size and trading volume.
Orgill steps down as general manager of trade body Aima in Hong Kong to build out the equities business of Samsung Securities, where she will work under SJ Hwang.
South Korea’s biggest futures firm plans to boost its global marketing team threefold to attract foreign players to its domestic derivatives market.
The imminent tax on exchange-traded funds in Korea is likely to hit returns and thus harm the development of the market, argues Bae Jae-Kyu of Samsung Asset Management.
Mirae Asset and Samsung ITMC find inventive ways to fill new QFII quotas.
Samsung Securities is expanding into alternative investments in preparation for deregulation in Korean financial services next year, but overlaps with investment and insurance ...
Lee Myung-Bak, Korea’s newly installed president, is known for his friendly view towards business, but not all sectors will outperform, says Samsung Investment CIO.
Korea’s largest fund management company has ambitions to go regional.
Samsung and Lyxor plan new products to list on Korea Exchange tapping overseas indices.
Samsung ITMC will launch in January and target both domestic and international investors.
Samsung Life and Samsung Fire & Marine to spin off in-house fund management to an affiliated investment trust company.