04/16/2012
Bankers for ING sent financial details of the Dutch group’s $6bn Asian insurance businesses to a string of bidders late on Friday firing the starting gun on what will be a keenly fought contest for the units.
04/16/2012
MIG Bank is a leading Swiss bank providing online trading services for private and institutional clients
04/16/2012
Barclays’ Funds and Advisory business will this week roll out its Portfolio Solutions service in Asia, having already achieved substantial take-up in Europe and the US.
04/13/2012
SMX, owned by India's Financial Technologies, is hoping to capitalise on the brisk trading interest in gold and silver futures contracts traded in India, the world's biggest gold consumer, and give potential players the opportunity to hedge via
04/13/2012
While thousands of hedge funds across the globe manage nearly $2 trillion in assets, relatively few have so far established a large presence in Asia, despite the region's rapid economic growth in the last five years.
04/12/2012
Dalrymple will focus on investing in companies with the potential to benefit from growing consumer consumption in Asia.
04/12/2012
Now, the People's Bank of China and other government agencies are weighing a quota-based system through which approved mainland businesses would be able to take out yuan loans offshore and remit the funds, the people said.
04/12/2012
Both funds aim to raise about $150 million each in about a year, after which they will stop taking money from clients until they enhance the trading models, Ochi said.
04/10/2012
The former Portfolio Partners manager, who now manages money in Melbourne for a mix of family offices and industry funds with Industry Funds Management, says long-term equity returns for investors are being undermined by a short-term focus that appears to
04/10/2012
The tie-up also planned to tap merger and acquisition (M&A) opportunities involving companies in India, Malaysia and Indonesia.
04/09/2012
Things may begin to change, however, with Singaporeans increasingly catching on to issues of social responsibility.
04/09/2012
OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Bhd plans to roll out a new credit-linked structured investment (CLSI) product next month in addition to the five existing ones, due to its increasing popularity as an alternative investment option for the current times.
04/05/2012
Australia and New Zealand will consider adopting a single currency under a proposal jointly floated by the countries' productivity bodies.
04/05/2012
After years of complaining about poor treatment as minority investors in India's publicly traded companies, some Western hedge funds are turning to activist tactics that have not often been tried here.
04/04/2012
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission approved a license for his Hong Kong-based company Karst Peak Capital Ltd., according to information posted on the regulator's website.
04/04/2012
Vertical Theme, together with Langkah Bahagia Sdn Bhd, own 29.06% of AFG. Should the proposed acquisition go through, DBS would effectively take over Duxton's 14.2% stake in AFG via Vertical Theme.
04/04/2012
Euroclear is working closely with the ASEAN+3 and markets and the ADB to improve post-trade services in Asia in order to increase the appeal of Asian debt securities to investors worldwide.
03/30/2012
Yong’s Singapore-based firm Dymon Asia Capital outperformed all of the region’s hedge fund managers last year with more than 20% in returns after fees, according to a Bloomberg report.
03/30/2012
The bourse said it will reorganise into five key business units - derivatives, listings, market data and access, post-trade and securities - from May 1.
03/29/2012
It will be the first bank from China, the world's largest consumer of industrial raw materials, to become a member of the exchange that is the world's biggest marketplace for metals including copper, aluminium and nickel.