07/16/2012
Japan's Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co Ltd and Korea Life were first out of the blocks to submit second-round bids on Monday for ING's insurance operations in Southeast Asia, as the Dutch insurer moves to divest it Asian operations.
07/16/2012
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07/16/2012
Goldman Sachs is paring down their Japanese prime brokerage business after the planned exit of unit head Toru Okabe.
07/16/2012
Demand is going to be subdued, given the state of the economy and the sentiment,” Ajay Mitra, managing director, Middle East and India at the council, said in a phone interview from Mumbai. “People are preferring to stay invested in cash becau
07/16/2012
Tybourne Capital Management Ltd. can draw down an additional $500 million available from investors later this year as opportunities arise, said the people who asked not to be identified as the information is private. Tybourne Equity Fund started trading
07/15/2012
ETFs listed in Asia ex Japan have $67bn of assets under management, compared with almost $1.2tn for US ETFs.
07/15/2012
Asia-Pacific including Japan and Australia now account for about 30 percent of global stock market value, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
07/15/2012
The team based in Hong Kong will be led by David Mercurio, who joined the London-based unit of Man Group Plc as the head of Asia equity and co-head of its global equity strategies from Government of Singapore Investment Corp.
07/15/2012
The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials climbed for a third consecutive week, jumping 10 percent in the longest winning streak since Feb. 24.
07/12/2012
ING agreed to divest its insurance and asset management operations before the end of 2013 as a condition of receiving state aid.
07/12/2012
Barg, who was co-head of equity capital markets in Asia excluding Japan, will relocate to Singapore and join Hsin Yue Yong in the investment banking role, according to a memo seen by Reuters and confirmed by Goldman.
07/11/2012
Super Fund chief executive Adrian Orr says the fund has been trying to develop these co-investment relationships for some time.
07/11/2012
Structured trade credit insurance covers the risk of non-payment from a buyer for goods and services or a borrower for trade-related loans.
07/11/2012
Regulators around the world are bringing in new rules to force derivatives that are traded over-the-counter to be centrally cleared and for data on those trades to be reported to them.
07/11/2012
Chief executive Charles Beazley says the fund will target Japanese retail investors, who increasingly see Australia as something of a safe haven thanks to its stable economy and AAA rating.
07/11/2012
The London and Singapore stock exchanges announced an agreement Wednesday to facilitate the cross-trading of the most actively-traded stocks of their respective member firms.
07/10/2012
The Tokyo bourse said the tender offer would run from Wednesday until Aug. 22.
07/10/2012
Treasury Group has acquired a 20% equity stake in Singapore based multi-strategy Asian equities manager, Octis Asset Management.
07/09/2012
Towers Watson survey shows total global alternative assets under management near $5 trillion
07/09/2012
The mandates will form part of the Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend Fund, a specialised fixed interest fund that invests in Australian interest bearing securities such as Commonwealth, State, local and semi government and corporate bonds.