We reveal the fund houses that have suffered the biggest year-on-year falls in assets sourced from Asia Pacific in percentage terms, according to our AI100 research project.
We reveal the firms that have grown the most in percentage terms year-on-year by assets sourced from Asia Pacific. Clue: none of them are global companies.
AsianInvestor’s latest list of the 100 biggest fund houses by Asia-Pacific-sourced AUM finds homegrown firms are growing, while global players' regional share has shrunk for the first time.
AsianInvestor presents the complete rundown of the 100 largest fund houses, ranked by their assets under management sourced from investors in Asia Pacific.
Chinese and Indian firms performed particularly strongly last year in AsianInvestor's list of the fastest growing fund managers by assets sourced from the region.
Here we list the top 25 firms in our annual ranking of fund houses by AUM sourced from Asia Pacific. A number of the big global players recorded strong growth on this front.
Swiss Re hires head of China asset management business; BlackRock deregisters its China WFOE; DWS names head of Apac insurance coverage; Amundi appoints first Asia sustainability officer; Manulife IM appoints senior portfolio manager for asset allocation; Morgan Stanley IM hires portfolio manager for A-shares; and more.
Rest Super names two new investment heads; BlackRock names co-heads of sustainable investment for Apac; AIA appoints Cambodia chief; Barings names head of institutional sales for Greater China and SE Asia; MUFG hires Asia head of ESG finance; and more.
The Canadian and Korean asset management operations of two life insurers have agreed to jointly take advantage of rising institutional investor demand for Asian alternative assets.
Although sustainable funds have seen increasing inflows amid growing environmental awareness and the spotlight on social issues due to Covid-19, the industry still lacks a standard definition of sustainable investing. Nicholette MacDonald-Brown, head of European blend equities at Schroders, explains the firm’s three-pronged approach of people, process and purpose.
Special purpose acquisition companies (Spacs) have gained ground as financing vehicles for companies looking to go public. But Asian family offices have yet to make many investments.
De-risking and green securitisation will help unlock much-needed institutional capital for sustainable infrastructure projects in Asia, say executives at multilateral development banks.
The Hong Kong-listed shares of mainland companies should receive more interest as Chinese pensions and global investors seek to benefit from relatively low valuations.
The Canadian pension fund is transferring a senior portfolio manager from Singapore with a view to expanding and internationalising its capital markets team further.