07/06/2014
A flurry of initiatives by China to open up its currency, stock and bond markets inside and outside the country has failed so far to allay international investor concerns about performance, accessibility and liquidity.
07/03/2014
About 81% of Asia Pacific-based asset managers see increased opportunity to enter new markets over the next 12 months, and 48% of them plan to do so in the next three years. China, India and Singapore top the list of target countries, according to a new r
07/03/2014
Ahead of the budget we talked to Rohit Wahi, CEO and Country Head, FirstRand Bank India about what the banking sector expects from the FM.
07/02/2014
Banks in the eurozone contributed just 3 per cent to the global profit pool, down from 25 per cent before the 2008 financial crisis, the study showed. Italian banks lost $35 billion in aggregate last year, the worst performance by any country.
06/29/2014
The major banks' pre-tax earnings as a share of their total assets rose to 1.28 per cent in 2013, higher than 10 other developed countries, the influential BIS said in its annual report on Sunday night.
06/27/2014
Chinese individual investors poured about 1.3 billion UAE dirhams in Dubai's real estate last year, nearly tripling that of 2012, as the Middle East's financial hub becomes a growing magnet for the well-off from the world's second-largest e
06/25/2014
The survey of more than 130 investors with over $3.8 trillion in assets revealed that the average percentage of their alternative investment portfolio going to hedge funds will remain the same for 2014 as for 2013, at 72.5%.