04/30/2015
BMO ETF's Win Three Awards
The ETFI Asia and Asia Asset Management's ETF and Indexing Awards 2015 recognize the most outstanding firms, products and personalities from Asia's ETF and indexing industry over the last year.
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04/30/2015
Luxembourg receives 50 billion RQFII quota
The People’s Bank of China granted Luxembourg a 50 billion renminbi ($8.1 billion) qualified foreign institutional investor quota
04/30/2015
Mutual fund talent in short supply amid equity boom
China's mutual funds are seeing an exodus of managers as more move into the private segment, lured by lucrative fees. In response, funds are setting up autonomous units to try to retain star managers
04/30/2015
China’s Taikang AM expands into mutual fund space
Taikang Asset Management has become the first fund management subsidiary of a mainland Chinese insurance firm to expand into the mutual fund space
04/30/2015
JLL to launch investment arm in India
LaSalle Investment Management, among the world's top five real estate investors and a unit of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), is entering India
04/30/2015
DIFC seeks to boost trade ties at ‘Dubai Week in China’
In a bid to strengthen the long-standing bilateral trade partnership between Dubai and China, Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the financial and business gateway between the Middle East, Africa and Asia, is set to mark an emphatic participatio
04/29/2015
Mutual funds try out new incentives to keep star distributors happy
Offer training & networking trips at home and abroad, but many prefer cash prizes, exotic junkets Mutual funds are trying out new ways to keep star distributors interested in pushing their products following the industry's decision to cap upfront
04/29/2015
Quantum AMC launches Quantum Dynamic Bond Fund
Quantum Asset Management Company launched an open-ended debt fund named Quantum Dynamic Bond Fund.
04/29/2015
IKON Group awarded Best Forex Broker in Europe 2015
The 5th Annual IAIR Awards® took place on 10th March 2015 in Hong Kong, preceded by a conference entitled “Asia CEO Summit”
04/29/2015
China just made a $2 billion move in an oil-rich west African nation
The agreement was signed on Tuesday following a meeting in Beijing between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Equatorial Guinea President Teodor Obiang Nguema, marking the latest Chinese investment in the continent and its resources.
04/29/2015
BT Investment targets the world as Aussie fee cuts bite
The fund reported a 20 per cent fall in first-half cash profit to $66.5 million from $83.1 million because of a sharp decline in performance fees
04/28/2015
Yuanta launches debut exotic CSI 300 ETFs
With the CSI 300 being one of the most widely-accepted benchmark indexes representing China’s onshore equity market, the ETFs can offer investors alternative access to the Mainland’s capital market, he added.
04/28/2015
Bosera launches ‘big data’ equity fund
Shenzhen-based Bosera Asset Management has launched the first equity fund benchmarked against a new index that uses ‘big data’ analysis to track companies based on their e-commerce activities.
04/28/2015
Can the Wizards of Oz conquer the world
Successful Australian fund managers are rapidly branching out into new and sometimes unfamiliar territory.
04/28/2015
Worst Asian default forgiven as Indonesia billionaire sells debt
Foreign investors have either forgiven or forgotten the events that involved the billionaire Widjaja family in Asia's worst corporate default
04/28/2015
Chew Gek Khim bags business award
The company has a market capitalisation of around $1.2 billion.
04/28/2015
LeapFrog leads $45 mln investment in Indonesia's Reliance Capital
Private equity firm LeapFrog Investments is leading a $45 million investment in Indonesian financial services provider Reliance Capital Management with the intention of taking it public
04/28/2015
LeapFrog leads $45 mln investment in Indonesia's Reliance Capital
Private equity firm LeapFrog Investments is leading a $45 million investment in Indonesian financial services provider Reliance Capital Management with the intention of taking it public
04/27/2015
DBS making waves in Asia's bond markets
But it says S'pore remains its most important market though this is being challenged
04/27/2015
Philippines not ready for passporting, managers warn
A Philippine association says that without passage of key investment legislation, the country's funds industry will remain fragmented and unready for the Asia Region Funds Passport scheme.