Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Commerzbank receives licence to trade China Onshore FX Options

Commerzbank Corporates & Markets has received its licence from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to trade onshore foreign exchange Options in China

China Life first Chinese insurer to market new-style capital

China Life has an option to defer payments on a cumulative and compounding basis, subject to a dividend stopper.

Swiss Re handed RQFII licence in diversification drive

Award of the licence to the first reinsurer and Switzerland based firm represents China's bid to diversify its international investor base

UOB unit to offer investors direct onshore yuan options

Fund manager UOB Asset Management will soon allow investors direct access to onshore yuan financial solutions

$3.83 Million Chinese Clock Sets Record for Online Auction of Asian Art

This makes it the highest auction result in Germany in 2015 and the most expensive object that Auctionata has sold since the start of its livestream auctions in May 2013.

Cerulli Predicts Asian Distributors Will Have Two Fund Lists

Passive funds will be used as the key building blocks for customers' portfolios

Deutsche AWM Launches ETF Based on Japan’s ‘Shame Index’

The index was designed by exchange operators in cooperation with the Japanese government.

Meet the world’s biggest stock market bubble since the dot-com boom

Shanghai Duolun Industry, a Chinese real estate company, managed to win over investors with a little re-branding in May.

Christie’s Chinese Paintings achieved US$104,737,698 in total sales

The auctions saw collectors vie for top quality paintings by the leading figures in the world of Chinese paintings. Classical calligraphy performed particularly well with the top selling lots achieving well above their estimates.

Foreign investors remain buyers of East Asia bonds

Foreign investors remain keen buyers of East Asia bonds despite the strengthening US dollar

APG buys stake in Chinese retail property developer Chongbang

APG, the €424bn asset manager for Dutch civil service pension fund ABP, has taken a €311m stake in Chinese non-listed retail property developer, owner and operator Chongbang.

ICICI Bank ties up with Alibaba to provide easy finance to SMEs

Indian entrepreneurs who are members of Alibaba.com will get quick access to business services from ICICI Bank

Temasek to invest $51m in India’s Oberoi Realty through preferential share issue

The investment was routed though Tamesek subsidiary Aranda Investments.

Private equity players TPG, Carlyle explore options for $1.8b Healthscope stake

Healthscope chief executive Robert Cooke is believed to have met with several possible South East Asian strategic buyers of the large stake owned by private equity giants TPG Capital and The Carlyle Group.

The secret to investing in China: advice from the world’s biggest hedge fund

Investors should avoid chasing the latest trends and be humble

New Rules for Hedge Fund Firms Could Transform Australian Ssctor - AIMA

Australia has taken a decisive step towards its advancement as a global investment market

John Abernethy says market manipulation 'just going to get worse'

Abernethy was commenting on the weird movements in a range of small and large cap stocks on Friday afternoon just before the market close

Hong Kong Firm Seeks $350M in Messy Plaza Snafu

More exciting finance drama at the always dramatic Plaza: a Hong Kong-based investment firm, JTS Trading Ltd., has accused three companies of squeezing it out of a deal to buy a majority stake in the Plaza,

The Green Issue

Demand for GBs is mostly from institutional investors

BlackRock tips RBA rate cuts Australian dollar below US70¢

Australia's dollar is likely to drop below US70¢ next year as a struggling economy forces the central bank to reduce interest rates by as much as half a percentage point, according to BlackRock.

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