06/15/2015

Guoyuan eyes Hong Kong listing

The firm, the offshore arm of Shenzhen-listed Guoyuan Securities, operates asset management, securities trading, securities research, corporate finance, among other businesses in Hong Kong.

06/15/2015

China managers set to ramp up solo overseas ETFs

Chinese managers are tipped to increasingly look to independent overseas listings of ETFs, without a foreign partner. But they face difficulties in building their own infrastructure to support products.

06/15/2015

Aberdeen's Asia chief defends antipathy to A shares

Hugh Young, Aberdeen AM's Asia head, says he remains averse to investing in China A shares because of what he sees as poor­quality firms. But he admits that sitting out the equity boom has hit returns.

06/15/2015

Indian real estate investment vehicle launches in DIFC

The May 2015 launch of the GP Property Fund domiciled in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and adhering to DFSA regulations is aimed at providing investors a platform to participate in India’s growing real estate market. In the view of

06/14/2015

Malaysia’s troubled state fund gets Middle East help

The fund, which has amassed debt since its inception in 2009 that is said to stand at $11.4bn, has used a fresh $1bn cash injection paid on June 4 by Aabar Investments, a unit of Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company, to repay the l

06/12/2015

Qatar takes stake in Hong Kong energy trust

QIA, which is the State of Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund (SWF), has acquired a 16.53% stake in HKEI, backed by one of the two power producers in Hong Kong, for HK$7.68 billion (US$991 million) from Power Assets, which spun it off last year.