07/25/2014
Leading US Life Insurance company enters Vietnam
The Ministry of Finance has granted establishment license of BIDV Metlife-a life insurance joint venture between the US Metlife Company and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) and BIDV Insurance Corporation (BIC).
07/25/2014
Trading in the £66 million ARC Capital fund, which counts Rathbones among its shareholders, has been suspended amid a breakdown in communication between its investment manager and board.
07/25/2014
Morningstar Take
07/24/2014
Under the deal, state-run China Development Bank will provide $4.7 billion yen for the construction of two hydropower dam projects in southern Argentina.
07/24/2014
The US-Canada Income and Growth Fund offers income and to lesser extent long-term capital appreciation by investing at least 95% of its assets in the Allianz Income
07/23/2014
Australia is close to signing a deal with China that would allow the establishment of an official clearing bank for the renminbi, a step towards the more open flow of money and investment into and out of the Asian giant.
07/23/2014
Yuzo Kano quit Goldman Sachs Group Inc. twice: once for a rival bank, the second time to open Japan’s first bitcoin exchange since the collapse of Mt. Gox.
07/23/2014
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said earlier this month the country would liberalise norms for real estate investment trusts (REITs) and American and global depositary receipts from domestic companies.
07/23/2014
Piramal Fund Management launches'Indiareit Apartment Fund'
The target fund size is INR350 cr with an average deal tenure of 2-3 years per transaction.
07/23/2014
Brazil's BTG Pactual has received a green light from the London Metal Exchange (LME)to set up warehousing operations in Singapore, marking the investment bank's first foray into Asia as builds out its physical metals business.
07/23/2014
CIMB-Principal is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CIMB-Principal Asset Management Bhd in Malaysia.
07/23/2014
Samurai issuance in 2014 so far is ¥1.66 trillion, not far short of the issuance for the whole of 2013, according to Dealogic. That is the highest on a year-to-date basis since 2008.
07/22/2014
The financial services firm will invest Rs127 crore in a project in Noida being developed by ATS Group
07/22/2014
Macquarie Group is planning to launch a new infrastructure fund spanning key Latin American economies, as investors seek out higher yield in emerging markets.
07/22/2014
Mid-last year, AIA launched a new brand positioning.
07/22/2014
Chinese fund groups eye UK launches
Three of China’s largest asset managers are said to be mulling UK expansion and are close to launching funds in the country.
07/22/2014
Japanese institutional investors have ranked India number one with regard to investment potential in comparison to key emerging markets
07/21/2014
The award was evaluated based on the performance in the past year including financial statures, investment policies and vision, long-term strategies and risk management techniques.
07/21/2014
China’s burgeoning hedge fund industry has the potential to rival that of the US and become one of the world’s largest
07/21/2014
Taiwan's stock market regulator is studying a plan to ease rules to make it easier for China's qualified domestic institutional investors to invest in local mutual funds