03/25/2015
Vietnam bank stocks trouncing Asia signal end of bad-debt crisis
There is no longer systemic risk in the banking system
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03/25/2015
Chinese Bank Launches Fund in Global Expansion
China Construction Bank and Germany’s Commerzbank open money-market fund in London
03/24/2015
Vanguard secures first RQFII licence in Australia
The CSRC has awarded Australia's first RQFII licence to a Vanguard subsidiary. And with the renminbi scheme expanding rapidly, last week Deutsche revealed it had received Germany's first licence.
03/24/2015
HSBC to service first German RQFII licensee
In July 2014, China extended the Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor pilot scheme to Germany with a quota of 80 billion RMB (US$13 billion) being allocated.
03/24/2015
U.S.-based property investment fund preparing to sell Japanese Investment Advisor
The sale preparations come after a rise in property values in Japan
03/24/2015
Hong Kong investors buy Sydney CBD office block for $112m
A private Hong Kong group has swooped on a Sydney CBD office block that was offloaded by a venture between the listed Abacus Property Group and German real estate group AM alpha for $112.3 million.
03/22/2015
GF Securities Plans Hong Kong IPO of Up to $3.6 Billion
China’s fourth-largest brokerage firm is the latest to tap funds as the mainland stock market rallies
03/22/2015
Sebi eases norms for domestic funds managing offshore money
Making it easier for domestic funds to manage offshore pooled assets, Sebi today relaxed its norms by dropping the '20-25 rule'
03/20/2015
SFC mulls more foreign ETF listings in HK
The regulator holds talks with the exchangetraded fund industry as it considers increasing crosslistings in Hong Kong. The city's ETF market has faced criticism over its dependence on Greater China funds.
03/20/2015
Nippon Life turns to overseas, eyes ¥1.5 trillion in mergers and acquisitions by 2018
Nippon Life Insurance Co., reversing its focus on the domestic market, is planning to invest up to ¥1.5 trillion in mergers and acquisitions overseas over the next three years.
03/20/2015
Deutsche AWM Receives First German Yuan Investor Licence
Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management Investment GmbH became the first German money manager to obtain a license to invest in China’s onshore financial market
03/20/2015
Van Eck Global’s China Bond ETF Named “Best New ETF of 2014”
CBON broke new ground by using China Asset Management (Hong Kong), Ltd.’s RQFII quota to tap into China's onshore bond market, currently the third largest in the world after the U.S. and Japan.
03/19/2015
Pinnacle backs Jacob Mitchell's global equities fund house Antipodes
Mr Mitchell previously looked after about 15 per cent of Platinum's flagship multibillion-dollar International Fund
03/19/2015
Ex-Harvard, Johnson Family Professionals Team Up for Fund
Zhang and Vasavada are seeking opportunities to own “great businesses” in China and India
03/19/2015
Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique
Antipodes has launched with $200 million in seed money from Perennial's international equity business, which it acquired at the end of last year.
03/19/2015
Asia managers taking the lead in data analysis
European and US fund managers are being forced into data management by a rising tide of regulations while those in Asia are taking a more proactive approach, the author of a new data analysis report claims.
03/19/2015
Shanghai makes new QDLP approvals
Five foreign fund managers have been given $100 million quotas under Shanghai's alternatives investment scheme.
03/19/2015
EM boutique launches Asian small-cap equity fund
Emerging markets specialist LGM Investments has launched a new approach focused on the small-cap Asian equity market, Citywire Global can reveal
03/19/2015
Singapore 'lacks committed local investors'
He forecasts that with oil prices remaining low, higher-quality assets would emerge for sale in the market.
03/19/2015
Real Estate Unit of Italy’s Generali Planning Move into Asia
Push is part of group-wide expansion away from insurer’s European roots