07/19/2018
China turns to Europe as US trade war hits investment
Report shows a dramatic swing in the first half of the year in FDI as Washington-Beijing standoff bites
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07/19/2018
HUB24 introduces low-cost product
HUB24 reported a 51.2% jump in FUA to $8.3 billion on the year prior.
07/19/2018
Impact investing reports sharp growth
RIAA chief executive Simon O'Connor said most impact investments are made through private debt.
07/19/2018
Aussie retirees blindsided by cost of living: Schroders
Sixty-one percent of retirees state they either don't have enough income or could do with more to live comfortably.
07/19/2018
SANNE appointed Fund and Transaction Administrator for world’s first public bond issuance backed by private equity
"Our appointment reinforces our capability in the Asia Pacific region, where our offering has grown from strength to strength since launching just a few years ago."
07/18/2018
Hong Kong’s CESC launches three sector- and factor-based indices
The northbound part of the programme allows foreign investors in Hong Kong to trade stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen.
07/18/2018
Temasek expanding footprint in US despite trade tensions
The proportion trails Singaporean and Chinese investments, which make up 27 per cent and 26 per cent of the portfolio, respectively.
07/18/2018
New Zealand banks' profits fall more than 10 per cent in first quarter
Mr Kensington said the dip in profits and higher bad debts would be watched especially given the growing global uncertainty and volatility.
07/18/2018
Indonesia funds struggle in 2018
There are also huge differences in sector weightings, according to data from FE Analytics.
07/17/2018
Can China’s US$941 billion wealth fund be the white knight to distressed stock, forex markets?
China’s equity and bond markets are under pressure from a trade war, a slowing economy and rising defaults, with the benchmark stock gauge slipping into a bear market last month.
07/17/2018
Growing protectionism could slow investment in real estate, infrastructure by sovereign wealth funds
Preference for more liquid assets by Middle East funds and US disputes with key trading partners behind decline
07/17/2018
Malaysia’s KWAP to extend ESG mandate to alternative investments
KWAP CEO Wan Kamaruzaman Wan Ahmad said the pension fund plans to increase external international fund managers for its ESG allocation from four to six.
07/17/2018
China property investment softens in June
Investment in real estate development in the first six months of 2018 grew 9.7 per cent, solidly higher from the 8.7 per cent rate seen a year prior but 0.5 percentage points lower from the year through May.
07/17/2018
Golden Equator Capital and Korea Investment Partners launch S$120m startup fund
The fund has 65 per cent committed capital to-date, and expects to fundraise the first phase of its fund by end-August and final phase by end-2018
07/16/2018
China hands over billions of dollars to revive growth in Middle East
The relationship between the bank consortium, financial aid and overall loan package was not clear.
07/16/2018
Hogan Lovells’ New Asia Pacific and Middle East Head Has Big Plans in an Interconnected World
Miguel Zaldivar is the first American partner to oversee the region for the firm. He wants to improve the interconnection between the firm's practices in the Asia Pacific/Middle East and its practices in the U.S. and Europe.
07/16/2018
India's troubled Fortis picks IHH as its preferred suitor
IHH, Asia's largest private healthcare operator, will acquire a controlling stake in India's second largest hospital chain
07/16/2018
Why China’s plan to launch the highly touted CDR scheme is still on hold
Tech firms’ unwillingness to accept certain terms related to the issuance of CDRs, a stock market rout and weakening yuan in the face of trade war with the US, has forced Beijing to indefinitely the launch plans on hold
07/16/2018
Sun Life invests in ‘Mabuhay Green Bonds’
Last month, IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, floated approximately $90 million worth of 15-year peso-denominated “Mabuhay” green bond.
07/16/2018
Green Finance Is Flowing, From Paris To The Pacific
Climate finance is all about balance and fairness, allowing industrialised countries that have benefited from high greenhouse gas economies to help finance efforts by poorer countries to cut their emissions and adapt to climate change.