07/30/2015
Taiwan 'on way to becoming Asia-Pacific asset management hub'
Taiwan issued licenses Wednesday to 14 insurance companies operating here to run offshore insurance units
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07/30/2015
Seymour Group in residential JV with listed Asian company
Seymour Group — owned by wealthy Queensland developer and investor Kevin Seymour — has refocused on the residential market with about $700 million worth of apartment projects in the pipeline and a new joint venture with a listed Asian company.
07/30/2015
New China pension fund mandates tipped to total $322bn
Chinese asset managers are tipped for 20 new mandates under the national public pension fund reform which is set to be announced soon, while 30% of the investments are expected to be in equity assets.
07/29/2015
IFR Asia Green Bonds Roundtable 2015: Sowing the seeds for Asia’s future
China is ramping up efforts to introduce a framework for Green financing that will include Green bonds as one of its key components.
07/29/2015
Broadline Leads $35M Series C In China Rapid Finance
An unnamed private equity firm, a family office and other investors also participated in the round, which valued the company at US$1 billion before the current funding.
07/29/2015
Top Asset Manager Awards Private Equity Fund Administration Contract To Asia Pacific Brokerage Services
The company focusing is focusing primarily on late-stage control buy-outs, growth capital, real estate development and credit business.
07/29/2015
Legg Mason to acquire Sydney-based boutique
The deal – which calls for an upfront cash payment of A$112 million and earn-outs of up to A$42 million over a three year period - should close by the end of November, said a Treasury Group/Northern Lights' news release.
07/28/2015
Activist investors turn up the heat on Asia
Asian management teams need to prepare for the shifting landscape and reset their perceptions of activists.
07/28/2015
Time to invest in more female fund managers
Why is half the population female, yet fewer than one in 10 fund managers are women?
07/28/2015
Greenstone Equity in tie-up with Multiples to woo investors
Renuka Ramnath, Founder of Multiples Alternate Asset Management Private Limited
07/27/2015
PE Panorama: Blackstone Group acquires First Eagle Investment Management in $4 billion deal
The family of John Arnhold, First Eagle's chairman and chief investment officer, will remain shareholders of the firm.
07/27/2015
Macquarie loosens purse strings for Indian infrastructure assets
The firm is investing Rs750-780 crore in a subsidiary of Ind-Barath Power, its second transaction in India this year
07/27/2015
The Link REIT bumps up Mainland portfolio
The seller is Hong Kong-listed Shui On Land, the Mainland property development arm of Shui On Group backed by Hong Kong property tycoon Vincent Lo.
07/27/2015
Hang Seng to launch China funds JV with majority stake
The Hong Kong bank plans to set up a joint venture funds company with majority control in Shenzhen’s Qianhai zone. It would be the first such mainland JV and a significant milestone in China’s funds liberalisation.
07/27/2015
David Cameron hails £750m business deals in Asia tour
Business deals worth more than £750 million will be sealed during David Cameron's four-day tour of south-east Asia which begins in Indonesia today.
07/27/2015
IFR Asia Green Bonds Roundtable 2015: Sowing the seeds for Asia’s future
China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, needs to transition away from dirty power and heavy industry, and any instrument that helps create a new class of socially responsible Chinese investors has to be a worthy initiative.
07/27/2015
Beijing widening of yuan trading band aimed at IMF, pushes for market reforms
China’s decision to widen the yuan’s trading band marked Beijing’s latest efforts to push ahead with market reforms to increase its chance of being included in the IMF’s currency basket later this year despite the backdrop of a wea
07/27/2015
Chinese fund manager GF International launches MSCI China A International ETF
The GFI MSCI China A International ETF is physical in nature meaning it invests in securities that replicate the composition of the index it tracks.
07/27/2015
SC Capital joins Fortius Funds Management to buy Sydney office tower
This is the fourth property that the Singapore-based private equity firm has bought in Australia over the last eight months.
07/27/2015
China's GSR Capital launching $5 bln fund for global tech deals
Chinese investment firm GSR Capital is launching a $5 billion fund to invest in global technology companies, counting on huge demand at home to create economies of scale in pharmaceuticals, energy saving and mobile phone technology.