Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Threadneedle rolls out first locally manufactured Asian equities fund in Singapore

Fund may also invest in other securities

Hedge funds still love Japan despite losses

Hedge fund managers are still bullish on Japan despite a painful start to the year.

Affin offers service to EPF and KWAP

The alliance between Japan’s Daiwa and Affin IB will see the co-branding and distribution of research reports

China Orient, Great Eagle To Launch $1B US Property Fund

Both parties will seek to raise capital from other investors

China Life Insurance to outsource asset management services

The considerable capital will be spent directly on the domestic stock market

BlackRock Seeks Buyers for Malaysian Office Towers, Mall Complex

BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager, is seeking bids to sell two office towers and a mall in Kuala Lumpur

Former Soros team to start $150 mln Hong Kong-based hedge fund

Hedge fund start-ups in Asia on average raised just over $50 million each last year

China firm plans $1 billion distressed asset fund for foreigners

A unit of one of China's biggest bad-debt banks plans to woo foreign investors with a $1 billion fund for soured property loans and distressed real-estate assets, reopening the sector to outsiders after a failed attempt last decade.

Challenger agrees $4bn infrastructure fund merger

Challenger has agreed a deal with Access Capital Partners to merge their infrastructure investment operations and form a new boutique business called Whitehelm Capital, which will manage $4bn of assets.

Richard Li builds an Asian insurer

To create a pan-Asian player selling insurance to the region’s emerging affluent classes.

Gold retail investment up 31 per cent in 2013, jewellery up 18 per cent

Thomson Reuters has published its Gold Survey 2014 results.

UPDATE 1-Bain, Carlyle among bidders for StanChart's HK consumer finance unit-sources

The sale of PrimeCredit, which sources have said could fetch between $500 million and $700 million, is among a series of disposals planned by the Asia-focused lender.

Asia-Pacific economies take step forward on regional funds scheme

he passport scheme will allow fund managers operating in one of the member economies

BlackRock gets first RQFII license

BlackRock received its first QFII licence for its subsidiary BlackRock Institutional Trust Company in July 2011

Mainland 'not ready for through train' stock trading between Hong Kong and Shanghai

Market watchers say the economy has yet to establish the preconditions needed to allow mutual stock trading between HK and Shanghai

Korean investors look to ETFs for international investment themes

Looking ahead to the pipeline for new ETF issuances in Korea

Domestic fund managers start to bet on own economy: poll

India-based fund managers are growing more confident in the domestic economy and plan to raise allocations to auto makers and private sector lenders, betting that no change to interest rates will underpin an economic recovery, a Reuters poll showed.

Fund managers back HK’s “one share, one vote”, disagree with Alibaba

Global fund managers of nearly US$14 trillion in assets support Hong Kong’s “one share, one vote” principle, and oppose changing listing rules to allow non-standard shareholding structures

China approves first REIT product as market cools

China's securities regulator has approved the country's first property trust investment product, giving developers a new source of funding and investors an alternative choice amid initial signs of cooling in the frothy property market.

Heinemann spotlights premium Mouton Cadet range in Chang

The wines are highlighted in-store by branded backlit screens

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