30/03/2010
Speaking to Innovative Investor at the 13th annual Asian Investment Conference, Giles Keating, head of research for private banking at asset management at Credit Suisse, claimed the global recovery is becoming more sustainable, despite lacklustre stock market performance. Innovative...
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30/03/2010
The recent surge in implied dividends has been so vigorous dealers say there is little upside left in going long dividends. Dealers are inherently long dividends as a result of popular structured products sold to clients, such as reverse...
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30/03/2010
Deutsche Bank has launched 11 new exchange traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong tracking the performance of sub-sections of the China's CSI 300 Index as well as the Index -compiled by China Securities Index Company - itself. The ETFs...
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30/03/2010
The Hong Kong government has published proposals to make it statutory for listed corporations to make timely disclosure of price-sensitive information. The government's consultation paper, Proposed Statutory Codification of Certain Requirements to Disclose Price Sensitive Information by Listed Corporations,...
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30/03/2010
ETF Securities, a UK exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and currency specialist, has launched the first ETF to track the Dow Jones-UBS Commodity Three-Month Forward (DJ-UBSCI-F3(SM)) Index, following growing investor demand for diversified commodity related products. "As commodities investing has become...
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22/03/2010
The Year of the Tiger is traditionally a turbulent one. Tigers are powerful and brave but also unpredictable. So what, if anything, does this mean for the financial markets in China and Hong Kong? Innovative Investor hears from Kenny...
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22/03/2010
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) plans to restructure its banking supervision and regulatory function, creating a new enforcement department to take over responsibility for securities enforcement and complaints-handling from the banking development department. The reorganisation is designed to...
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22/03/2010
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China (PBoC), on March 14 stood firm on the central bank's interest rate strategy despite inflation data published the previous week triggering alarm in some quarters. Speaking to reporters following...
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22/03/2010
ETF Securities (ETFS) has released a range of 14 commodity funds on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with trading commencing on March19. The commodity ETFs consist of 9 funds tracking individual asset classes, such as aluminium, copper, corn, crude oil...
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22/03/2010
Ratings agency and financial research firm Standard & Poor's (S&P) plans to roll out two commodity-related sub-indexes that focus only on Asian and European contracts in response to fears the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will make further...
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22/03/2010
Major economies need to "come to terms with their debt" if they are to avoid the problems afflicting Greece, a leading economist has warned. As fears grow over the risk of a sovereign default in the Eurozone, Carmen Reinhart,...
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15/03/2010
Providers fear collapse in private placement volumes and shift of business to Singapore Structured product issuers, distributors, private bankers and industry associations have called on Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to reconsider its proposal to remove the...
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15/03/2010
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is looking at adding certain features of 'dark pools' to its traditional trading platform during the long term and remains open to working with alternative trading system (ATS) operators to provide anonymous block...
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15/03/2010
The FTSE 100 index has been licensed to appear on the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the first time. It has been licensed for use by Hua An Asset Management and will be the basis of the asset manager's first...
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15/03/2010
Asia will drive growth in sukuk sales in 2010, according delegates at a seminar on Korean sukuk hosted in Seoul last week by BNY Mellon. As the global financial markets recover from the financial crisis, Islamic finance is becoming...
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15/03/2010
Asia's love of ETFs shows no sign of abating any time soon, and with firms in mainland China racing to be the first to launch an international ETF the market could soon see another steep uptake in demand. Innovative Investor...
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08/03/2010
Mark Smallwood, head of wealth management solutions, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, talks to Innovative Investor about the issues HNWIs in Asia need to consider, and the steps they can take, to address legacy-transfer issues. Innovative...
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08/03/2010
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published a handbook for retail investors that details for the first time how it believes structured products should be sold. The publication of Making Sense of Structured Products in its second public...
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08/03/2010
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will introduce a short-position reporting regime to "enhance transparency of short-selling activities" in Hong Kong. The widely expected move by the SFC was announced following a consultation period during which the regulator...
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08/03/2010
Correlation between the Bric (Brazil, Russia, India and China) currencies has blown out over the past six months, increasing the cost of structuring Bric-basket trades. High charges have meant investors have chosen to tweak emerging-market exposures by trading baskets...
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08/03/2010
Asian institutions have started to invest in life settlement funds and the market is being tipped for further growth. Life settlement funds are pools of life policies sold on by their original policyholders in exchange for a lump-sum payment,...
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08/03/2010
Royal Bank of Scotland has launched a business-to-business trading platform in Asia to enable institutional clients and wealth management intermediaries to execute instant trades on investments. MyMarkets gives investors access to investments, including structured products, across all asset classes...
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08/03/2010
Nomura has launched a series of hedge fund replication indexes in partnership with Hedge Fund Research (HFR), aiming to replicate the returns generated by hedge funds in a more transparent way. The HFRq Hedge Fund Replication Long Index and...
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08/03/2010
Werner Schlossmacher has taken on the additional title of director and head of investment solutions for southeast Asia and Australasia at Credit Suisse's private banking division. In this new role, he will oversee the products and investment solutions areas...
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08/03/2010
Pricing Partners has unveiled a new value-at-risk calculation tool for structured products on its Price-it platform. The new system has been in development for two years and will now be marketed to both buy-side and sell-side clients. Value-at-risk is...
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01/03/2010
Standard & Poor's (S&P's) Ratings Services has claimed India's 2010-2011 budget marks the country's first steps towards fiscal consolidation after two years of deteriorating finances. In a statement, S&P's said it believes with increased certainty that the government can...
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01/03/2010
In its Quarterly Report for October to December 2009 released at the end of February, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong noted the conclusion of its investigations into the sale of Lehman Brothers Minibonds following the...
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01/03/2010
Deutsche Bank announced today the launch of six new Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), including the first ETF in Asia to track the performance of the Brazilian domestic equity market. The...
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01/03/2010
China Construction Bank (Asia), Hong Kong has announced it is to partner with FinIQ for structured products distribution and processing. The system will integrate into bank's existing infrastructure and will automate the entire life cycle for equity linked structures,...
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01/03/2010
Hong Kong's Financial Secretary has delivered a budgetary proposal to extend the stamp duty concession on ETFs in order to promote "healthy growth" in the market but it looks likely to affect less than 10% of ETFs. On 24...
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01/03/2010
Xavier Deschamps, general Manager, global head of sales and marketing at Pricing Partners talks to Innovative Investor about its brand new launch into the Asian markets. Innovative Investor - What is Pricing Partners? Who uses your services and why?...
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