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December
The National Social Security Fund of China is looking to raise its overseas investments nearly threefold.
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Aviva Investors is planning to open its U.K. absolute fund to Australian retail investors
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HSBC Jintrust Fund Management has set up a new small-medium capital Chinese equity fund
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It’s been a difficult couple of years to be an investment manager in the US and Europe. But, for Queensland Investment Corporation, the story has been much more positive
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ING Investment Management Australia has appointed Steven Billiet as its new chief executive
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China Universal Asset Management has appointed Sheldon Gao and Doris Wong
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The Teachers Retirement System of Texas has committed $150 million to a CLSA Capital Partners’ fund
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Daiwa Securities SMBC has unveiled an enhanced electronic trading platform in Asia. The new platform offers a range of tools for its institutional clients.
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Hong Kong fund of hedge funds firm, Infiniti Capital, is planning to set up a $200-400 million film fund.
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Jupiter Asset Management is to launch a Ucits III fund for investors seeking to gain exposure to China’s sustainable growth story
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Nomura has been approved as a CDS clearing member of ICE Clear Europe, effective immediately.
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has been appointed by Standard Life Investments. RBC Dexia will offer global custody, investment administration and shareholder services to the firm’s Australian-domiciled fund.
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CITIC Securities has raised $1.3 billion for its first private equity fund, and will close the local currency fund next week
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India-based Religare Private Equity will launch an Asia fund of funds
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CCB International is set to roll out a $1 billion private equity fund in Hong Kong. The fund will only invest in financial institutions, said the firm’s CEO Hu Zhanghong.
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Northern Trust has appointed Fifi Ting to its asset management unit in Hong Kong. Ting will serve as Asia-Pacific head of sales and client service for Northern Trust Global Investments (NTGI).
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Northern Trust is to offer environmental emission analytics, enabling institutional investors and high net worth individuals across the globe to effectively measure the carbon footprint of their investments.
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Goldman Sachs has obtained licenses from Malaysia’s Securities Commission to set up fund management and advisory operations in the country.
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Property group, Lend Lease, is launching a $400 million private equity fund In Australia. The Lend Lease Real Estate Partners No 3 Fund will invest in distressed assets in Australia.
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Pengana Capital has set up an aircraft leasing fund. The firm’s credit strategies team has launched the international airline sector investment vehicle for institutional investors.
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BNY Mellon Asset Servicing has appointed Jeannine Lehman as head of client relations
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Euroclear Bank and the newly created Shanghai Clearing House have signed today a Memorandum of Understanding as the basis to build a close co-operative relationship.
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Guan Ong, ex-CIO of Korea Investment Corporation has launched his credit hedge fund in Singapore. Blue Rice Investment Management (Brim) has started trading its absolute-return strategy, the Brim Asian Credit Fund.
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Barclays Capital is seeking regulatory approval to launch equities trading for the first time in over a decade in the domestic market.
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BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) is looking to expand its boutique fund operations from 20 to 26. The boost is a result of BNPP IP merger with Fortis Investments.
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Charteris Treasury Portfolio Managers is looking to set up a gold fund. The move is an effort to capitalise on the next phase of the gold bull market, which it expects to continue until 2019.
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Legg Mason affiliate, Batterymarch Financial Management, believes that emerging market corporate earnings will continue to deliver on the upside in 2010.
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Fund managers seem to have a blind spot when it comes to Japan, despite some unique investment opportunities. Charles Beazley, president of Nikko Asset Management (Europe) sets out the case for Japanese equities.
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Scandinavian hedge fund manager, Brummer & Partners, is planning to launch a Bangladeshi equity hedge fund
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Instinct Capital has launched an event-driven opportunity fund
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The Singapore Mercantile Exchange has received “in principle” approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore
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Next year is likely to be the year of global recovery thanks to a synchronised, sizable, and successful global stimulus policy, according to the latest edition of Standard Chartered Bank’s monthly Global Focus report.
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BNY Mellon Asset Management is planning to recruit 50 people across Asia next year
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The Bombay Stock Exchange will launch a trading platform for mutual fund units on Dec. 4
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November
China has unveiled a new body to centralise settlement and clearing of financial products traded among the country’s banks
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Chi-X Japan KK is seeking regulatory approval to launch a displayed, alternative equities marketplace by 2010
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Taiwan’s Public Service Pension Fund (PSPF) will outsource new global and Asia-Pacific equity portfolios
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Venture capital firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), is planning to raise about $400 million by March
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Former Fidelity International fund manager, Anthony Bolton, will launch a new China-focused fund
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JP Morgan is expanding its securities lending capabilities in Taiwan
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HSBC Global Asset Management has introduced a retail multi-asset investment product range in Hong Kong
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Morgan Stanley has appointed Zach Tuckwell as its Asia-Pacific electronic trading business head
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Daiwa Securities will be launching a new Vietnam fund, in order to boost its Asian business operations.
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Jun Mihara is planning to roll out a $1.1bn fund to invest in Asian distressed assets
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India's National Stock Exchange is planning to launch a new mutual fund service system
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Manulife Financial will buy 49% stake in China’s ABN Amro TEDA Fund Management
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TWU Super has committed $100 million to hedge funds, Investment Technology reports
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Barclays Global Investors has set up an exchange traded fund in India
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Chinese mutual fund firm, Bosera Fund Management, has received $1 billion quota to invest in overseas securities
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Teacher Retirement System of Texas is looking to invest $200 million in private equity in Asia
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Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) will sell its custodian services business in Australia and New Zealand for an undisclosed amount.
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Paladyne Systems, a leading provider of technology and services to the global hedge fund Industry, today announced its continued global expansion with the opening of a Hong Kong office.
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Russell Investments has appointed Mahendran Nathan as CEO of its Southern Asia business.
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Central-Asia focused Sturgeon Fund has hired BNY Mellon as global custodian.
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Chi-East, a joint venture between Chi-X and Singapore Exchange, has appointed LCH.Clearnet to serve as the clearing facility for Asia’s first exchange-backed dark pool
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Gartmore is launching a Japan absolute return fund that will use Gartmore’s Japanese long/short strategy AlphaGen Hokuto strategy
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Asian investment firm, Kuwait China Investment Company, has set up an emerging hedge fund
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iShares has floated five new A-share exchange traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong. The funds will provide access to the CSI 300 index and will give a more focused exposure to sectors, including energy, financials, infrastructure and materials.
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India’s Aditya Birla Group is planning to raise a $500 million realty fund. The Aditya Birla India Real Estate Vision Fund is aiming to raise $350 million, along with a green shoe option to raise another $150 million.
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Chi-X has appointed Ned Phillips to manage its dark pool joint venture in Singapore. The trading platform provider has formed a partnership with the Singapore Exchange for the dark pool venture.
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Fidelity Mutual Fund has set up a diversified domestic equity fund.
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Kotak Mahindra has unveiled an infrastructure focused fund for European retail investors.
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India has continued to post the strongest net inflows in the third quarter
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AMP has signed a strategic partnership with China Life Insurance for the asset management and pensions sectors.
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ICAP and GreTai Securities Markets enter into strategic partnership to offer onshore US government bond trading in Taiwan.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has agreed to allow mutual fund schemes to be transacted through brokers of stock exchanges.
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Securities companies in China have been gathering finance to shore up capital base, in a bid to roll out new business
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China Investment Corporation has appointed Bill Lu as managing director of its hedge fund business
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AXA Investment Managers today announced the appointment of Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of Asia Pacific.
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Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX) has appointed India’s ICICI Bank for clearing and settlement services.
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India’s Axis Mutual Fund has set up its first equity fund
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Bursa Malaysia is mulling a joint venture with NYSE Euronext
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Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has hired Boris Liedtke as the CEO for the group’s Asia ex-Japan asset management business.
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Fubon Financial Holding has inked a private equity joint venture with two state-run Chinese companies.
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J.P. Morgan has been appointed by emerging markets manager Greylock Capital Management to provide private equity fund administration.
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Bursa Malaysia has introduced Direct Market Access (DMA) for the equities market.
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T Rowe Price has signed an agreement with the four sponsors of UTI Asset Management to buy a 26% stake in the firm for about $150 million
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Two ex-UBS managing directors, Andrew Barker and Raymond Maguire, are looking to set up a global transport fund
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Lloyd George Asset Management has set up an emerging markets high yield fund.
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UK insurer Prudential has set up a new Sharia-compliant fund management business in Asia. Malaysia-based Prudential Al-Wara' Asset Management Berhad will start with about $443 million in assets under management.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is planning to closely watch fund accountants and administrators
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Ipac has appointed Fidelity International’s institutional funds management unit, Pyramis Global Advisors
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A South Korean stock market operator is looking to start a clearing house for over-the-counter interest rate swap trading in 2010
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Asia-focused hedge funds continued to build on strong gains posted in the first half of 2009, with the HFRI Emerging Markets: Asia ex-Japan Index returning nearly 9% in the third quarter, according to data released today by Hedge Fund Research.
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RBC Capital Markets has hired Mike Bass as a Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income & Currencies, Asia (non-Japan).
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Indian financial services firm, Religare, is planning to set up a $500 million pan-Asian fund.
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Perth-based Government Employees Super Board has appointed three active international equities managers
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Indian private equity firm, Milestone Capital, is planning to raise a $250 million offshore fund
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A new Nasdaq-style stock exchange, ChiNext, has launched in China. The launch has more than doubled the prices of all 28 newly listed companies.
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Shanghai-based Huaan Fund Management is seeking a new CEO
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PMA Capital, a Hong Kong-based fund manager, recently launched a fund targeting investors that want exposure to the India growth story
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October
Taiwan-based Cathay Securities Investment Trust has appointed ChinaAMC, as sub-advisor. The Beijing-based firm’s Hong Kong unit will advise Cathay on an upcoming Greater China fund.
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Chinese PC maker, Founder Group, is launching a $293 million private equity fund. The new fund will focus on technology, media and telecom sectors.
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Australia’s Telstra Super is seeking a property portfolio manager and an alternatives professional for its investment team.
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Asset Super has hired AMP Capital Investors as the manager of it socially responsible investment (SRI) option.
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BNP Paribas Securities Services Singapore announced today that it has been appointed by Aberdeen Asset Management Asia for the fund administration and global custody of their “Select” and “South-East Asia” funds.
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Two senior portfolio managers at Stark Investments in Asia are leaving the hedge fund to start their own firm.
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Two Australian superannuation funds are planning to replace JPMorgan Worldwide Security Services as custodian
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China Pacific Insurance Group is teaming up with its unit, Pacific Asset Management, to launch an asset management joint venture
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A good market performance has not dispelled fears over India’s economic recovery. But for the long-term investor, the prospects are good
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Shyam Kumar, director and chief executive, Kotak Mahindra (UK), sets out the case for India as an asset class in its own right
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Standard Chartered has launched the Alternative Investment Fund Administration service for the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets
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Two of China’s mutual fund firms have received quotas from the foreign exchange regulator to invest in securities abroad.
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Nick Taylor, a former executive of Citadel Investment Group, is set to launch an Asia-focused hedge fund start-up
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London-based Investec Asset Management is floating an absolute return emerging markets currency fund
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Private equity manager, Anthony Correa, is looking to launch a Hong Kong-based hedge fund
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Private equity manager, Anthony Correa, is looking to launch a Hong Kong-based hedge fund
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The Bureau of Labour Insurance (BLI) in Taiwan is seeking managers for $600 million global fixed-income portfolios.
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Chris Ryan, managing director for Asia ex-Japan at Fidelity International, has stepped down
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Eagle Investment Systems has established an Asian hub in Singapore
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Manulife Asset Management Singapore is launching five funds in Singapore
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Pengana Capital is planning to float a market neutral fund in the next few months
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Thanachart Asset Management Fund is looking to introduce a new foreign investment fund
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Three Melbourne-based superannuation funds have hired Pengana Global Bond Fund
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Samena Capital has launched its first Asia Bond Fund, to be managed with Argyle Street Management
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Super funds service provider, FuturePlus, has hired Elliot Graham to review tenders from transition managers
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Ipac, a multi-manager, has reassigned its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio to four active managers
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Krung Thai Asset Management (KTAM) has set up a new $60 million foreign investment fund
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Rio Tinto’s corporate superannuation fund for employees has launched a new alternative growth asset class
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Union Bank of India’s plan to launch a joint venture mutual fund firm with KBC wins regulatory approval
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A team of ex-Deutsche Bank distressed debt traders have together set up an investment bank in Hong Kong
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Alternative investment firm, Cartica Management, has set up the world’s first global emerging markets corporate governance fund
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HSBC Bank has hired Andrew Bastow as the new head of securities services for its Australian unit
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K2 Asset Management is planning to launch a global equities hedge fund by the end of 2009
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Japanese asset manager, OGI Capital Partners, has appointed Citi as fund administrator and custodian
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The equities market correction may have caused investors to review their exposure to Chinese stocks but there is little doubt that long-term the investment case is compelling, writes James Norris
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The credit crisis has claimed a number of victims, including the theory of decoupling. Or has it? As resurgent emerging markets leave behind the arthritic developed economies, the debate has resurfaced, writes James Norris
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Citigroup has sold its Tokyo brokerage business to Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
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PIMCO is looking to set up an office in South Korea
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Australia's Building Unions Superannuation Scheme is seeking a manager for a $30 million Asia ex-Japan mandate.
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September
HSBC Global Investments has launched a new emerging markets equity fund in Australia.
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Malaysia’s World Zakat Fund is looking to raise $750 million from high-net-worth Muslims in its first year.
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Australia’s TWUSUPER has moved out of domestic listed property trusts (LPTs) to only target international LPTs.
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Investment firm, Oaktree Capital Management, will invest $1 billion for China Investment Corporation
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ASIC has issued a class order that allows short selling to hedge risk from market making activities.
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CCB International (Holdings) (CCBI) has set up its healthcare fund in Beijing
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China Asset Management Corporation has appointed Fidelity Investment’s Hong Kong head of institutional investment, Anthony Ho
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ING Real Estate Investment Management (Asia) is looking to raise around $750 million for its second China-focused fund
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Australia’s Queensland Investment Corporation has hired State Street for its Irish qualified investment fund
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Saigon Asset Management has named Hoang Nguyen as CIO
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China’s CDH Investments is looking to raise $1.4 billion for its fourth private equity fund
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Deutsche Bank has hired David Murphy and Nathan Davison as co heads of Prime Finance, Asia (ex Japan).
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Legalsuper is looking to award hedge fund and credit investment mandates
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India’s securities lending market faces challenges as its tries to grow out of its infancy.
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Dr Chiragra Chakrabarty, in his keynote address, advocated the setting up of an Asian Monetary Fund to help tide over the financial crisis the region is currently facing.
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CIC, China’s sovereign wealth fund, is acquiring a stake in Noble Group, a Singapore-based commodities trader, for $850 million
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India’s Axis Mutual Fund will launch an open-ended debt scheme
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Hennessy Advisors has entered a deal with SPARX Investment & Research to purchase the assets related to the management of the SPARX Japan Fund and SPARX Japan Smaller Companies Fund
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Bank of East Asia (BEA) is looking to launch a joint venture fund management firm in China
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BNP Paribas Securities Services is looking to boost its presence in Asia
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The South East Asian Strategic Assets Fund has bought Babcock & Brown’s interest in the latter’s Asia infrastructure fund
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The Bank of the Philippine Islands Asset Management and Trust has appointed Theresa Javier as group head
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ATR KimEng, a Philippines financial services firm, is planning to invest up to $1.6 million in two mutual funds managed by Deutsche Bank’s Manila office
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AMP Capital Investors has appointed Bennelong Funds Management and BlackRock Investment Management
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Belgium’s Euroclear has established a new service link with the Korea Securities Depository
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Australian state pension fund Military Super has restructured the strategic asset allocation in four of its investment options
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Allianz Global Investors is setting up its new Allianz RCM Greater China Dynamic fund in Hong Kong
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Cavendish Asset Management has launched an Asia Pacific fund, the fifth in a series of specialist investment funds
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Former Lehman Brothers veterans, Paul Penkett and Stephen Cheng are seeking more external investors for their Omnix Multistrategy Fund in Hong Kong
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Mirae Asset Mutual Fund has launched the Mirae Asset China Advantage Fund
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India’s SREI Infrastructure Finance has received approval from the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to launch mutual fund operations in the country.
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Ascalon Capital Managers has set up a new boutique hedge fund
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Bank of India is looking for a foreign partner to foray into mutual fund business
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Chi-X Global has appointed Ronald Gould as chief executive of its Asia-Pacific business
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Boutique investment manager Private Portfolio Managers is opening its PPM York Super Fund to more Australian investors
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Titanium Asset Management has unveiled a superannuation fund for advisers
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Aberdeen Asset Management has unveiled its sixth foreign investment fund in China
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Credit Suisse is seeking to launch a capital protection product that provides exposure to Australian shares, resources stocks and Chinese securities
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The Singapore unit of India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company is launching a fund of private-equity funds
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Indonesia’s Danareksa Investment Management is planning to launch three new protected mutual funds, worth up to a total of $200 million
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South Korea’s Mirae Asset Global Investment is looking to set up a joint venture in China by September-end
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Bank of China is looking to set up a fund-of-funds, which will invest in hedge funds
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TWUSuper, in Melbourne, is revamping its Australian equities portfolio
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Australian stockbroker, Patersons Securities, has started a specialist fixed income and hybrid securities joint venture with Bryan Davies
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UBS Global Asset Management and Goldman Sachs are looking to take part in collective investment management schemes (CIMs) in China,
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August
Ralph Leib, formerly senior investment strategist at Western Australian GESB fund, has quit to start his own global long/short hedge fund.
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Private equity firms, Carlyle Group and KKR, are looking to raise yuan-denominated funds in China.
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Reliance Private Equity is expecting to close its first $307.7 million fund by the end of September.
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UOB Asset Management is introducing two new mutual funds, which will invest in Middle East bonds.
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Surging Asian equity markets in the second quarter of 2009 contributed to the strongest performance in nearly a decade for Asia-focused hedge funds.
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Darby Overseas Investments, Franklin Templeton Investments' private equity unit, has added Ho Shik Kim to its investment board.
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked mutual fund houses to charge exit loads only for the first year of investments.
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Macquarie and China Everbright are planning to raise $1.5 billion for two funds.
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Mirae Asset Global Management has unveiled its maiden retail fund in Hong Kong.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, CLSA and Hong Kong's First Eastern Investment are launching private equity funds in Shanghai.
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Australia's largest corporate super fund, Telstra Super, has restructured its global equities portfolio.
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Jeremy Higgs and Keith Olson have set up a new investment management firm, Environmental Investment Services Asia Limited (EISAL), in Hong Kong.
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Malaysia has launched the world's first end-to-end Shari'ah-compliant commodity trading platform.
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Julius Baer is working on a bid for ING Groep's private banking units in Asia and Europe as part of a strategy to reduce its dependency on European clients.
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UBS Global Asset Management and Goldman Sachs are looking to take part in collective investment management schemes (CIMs) in China,
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June
World markets may have lifted a little but many investors are not convinced of the durability of any upturn. The latest gold rush has begun. In what one analyst called a 'crowded trade', investors from retail to sovereign appeared in no hurry to abandon the age old refuge of uncertain times. Caroline Allen reports
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A new asset management firm has been built around the trade and investment connections of the old Silk Route between Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Caroline Allen reports
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The past few months have seen a rebound in investor confidence on the back of strong market performance and encouraging investment inflows. For the careful stock picker, Korea presents a number of opportunities, writes James Norris
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May
Whether investors are seeing the green shoots of recovery or the green fungus of decay in various markets is the focus of increasing debate. But what is not contested is that it will probably be Asia, and specifically China, that leads the world out of the present slump. Caroline Allen reports
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Market conditions are far from ideal for those facing critical corporate decisions. Japanese exchanges face critical choices where they must balance long and short term interests. Whatever the outcome, other players are likely to be fundamentally affected. Natsuki Sato, General Manager , Settlement & Clearing Services Division, Mizuho Corporate Bank
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Former top fund DFA Australia has been pushed off the podium, leaving Zurich, Fiducian and Vanguard Investments as the country's top funds for April 2009. Hong Kong sees a similar story, as BOCI drops out of sight and is replaced by Fidelity (Luxembourg).
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Which infrastructure is responsible for what? What are the market specific rules for post-trade activities? These may be simple questions, but in a fragmented world the answers remain complex. BNP Paribas Securities Services looks at why the answers are integral to maximising opportunities
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April
UOB Asset Management is introducing two new mutual funds, which will invest in Middle East bonds.
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Surging Asian equity markets in the second quarter of 2009 contributed to the strongest performance in nearly a decade for Asia-focused hedge funds.
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March