10/19/2022
Greensill Investors Look to Australia Case for Direction
Among insurers, Japan's Tokio Marine is playing a key role, with the main insurer of the Greensill funds not expecting to have to pay out anything.
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10/19/2022
Singapore-based insurtech bolttech secures Series B investment to continue the company’s rapid global growth
bolttech has achieved rapid growth since its inception in 2020.
10/19/2022
Korea Post hires Brookfield, Macquarie for US$200 million infrastructure mandate
The government postal agency chose the Canadian firm and US alternatives investment manager Ares Management Corporation for a $200 million global infrastructure debt mandate in May.
10/19/2022
Malaysia pension fund KWAP eyes impact investments to raise private market exposure
KWAP, which manages the retirement savings of civil servants, had 159 billion ringgit (US$33.74 billion) of total assets under management as of end-2021.
10/19/2022
Standard Chartered GBA Business Confidence Index continues to drop
This in turn prompted corporates to turn more cautious towards the Q4 outlook - the expectations index for business activity fell 2.6 points to 49.9 in Q3 from 52.2 in Q2, below the 50-neutral mark for the first time in nine quarters, indicating there is
10/18/2022
AMP launches market-first retirement solution – MyNorth Lifetime
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10/17/2022
Norges Bank expects more companies to set supplier-emissions targets
The lack of quality emissions data remains a hindrance as the fund seeks to make investment and ownership decisions, said Mohn, although some progress is being made.
10/17/2022
Japanese Interest in Credit Suisse's Securitization Business
According to Credit Suisse, the SPG division is highly profitable and includes $20 billion in risk-weighted assets and about $75 billion in leverage exposure.
10/17/2022
T Rowe Price’s Thomson views current bear market as once in 300-year event
T Rowe Price's head of international equities and chief investment officer also discusses the firm's plans for its China WFOE.
10/13/2022
Apollo Strengthens Asia Pacific Footprint with New Office in Mumbai
CEO Marc Rowan Participated in a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to Commemorate the Opening
10/11/2022
Malaysia’s Equitiestracker unit Smart Wealth wins fund management licence
Equitiestracker was established in 1976.
10/07/2022
Malaysia’s Permodalan Nasional plans to add infrastructure assets to portfolio next year, report says
He says PNB has set up a small team for infrastructure strategy, and that it will expanded once the company starts investing in the asset class.
10/07/2022
Magellan FUM drops further
Overall, the group's FUM has dropped almost $10 billion since the end of June and about $20 billion since the start of the year.
10/07/2022
Japan’s GPIF appoints LaSalle Investment for global real estate mandate
GPIF is the world’s largest pension fund, with 196.59 trillion yen (US$1.36 trillion) of assets under management as of March 2022.
10/07/2022
Retail the next frontier for private markets: Preqin
Preqin currently forecasts that global private capital markets will reach $18 trillion in size by 2027.
10/05/2022
Singapore’s GIC looks for more hospitality assets in Japan, report says
Goh says GIC is evaluating hotels, resorts and ryokan or traditional inns in key cities like Tokyo and Okinawa.
10/04/2022
Hong Kong Brings in Market-makers for Yuan-denominated Equities
The exchange has allowed companies to issue yuan-denominated shares since 2010 but limited turnover has prompted very few of them to take that step, the SCMP indicated.
10/04/2022
Nomura Appointed as Chair of Newly Established “GX Business Working Group” to Build a Framework and Promote Evaluation and Disclosure on Climate-Related Opportunities by GX League
For the realization of carbon neutral society, GX Business Working Group aims to establish an appropriate framework to evaluate Japanese companies’ opportunity, their contribution to climate change.
10/03/2022
Indonesia Investment Authority, BlackRock partner in US$300 million credit facility to Traveloka
Other institutions which participated include Germany’s Allianz Global Investors and Singapore private credit investment manager Orion Capital Asia.
10/03/2022
Financial stability keeps Thai rates from rising fast
That explains why the Thai central bank stuck to its gradual and measured approach to fighting South-east Asia’s fastest inflation, with a quarter-point rate increase in September, despite peers Philippines and Indonesia tightening aggressively.