24/05/2010
According to a Schroders Investment Management strategist, there are still returns to be made from the European corporate bond market. "Risk appetite has clearly been hit by the downgrades of Greece, Portugal and Spain, and investor attention is now...
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24/05/2010
Nomura has ramped up headcount at its Mumbai global service centre, Nomura Services India. It has made two key appointments: Murali Subrahmanyam has joined as managing director and chief administrative officer, while Anita Yadav has been appointed managing director...
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24/05/2010
The Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), has appointed The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as its settlement bank. The exchange - a pan-Asian multi-product commodity derivatives exchange - is building up traction with banking, financial and trading institutions in Asia...
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24/05/2010
Investec Structured Products is planning the addition of Ucits III structured funds to its offerings later this year. The funds will remove counterparty risk and offer different return profiles including closed- and open-ended fund structures. The structured funds market...
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24/05/2010
On the back of some independent research by BNY Mellon and Private Equity International, BNY Mellon is heralding Asia as a source of fundraising for European and US private equity firms for the first time. Andrew Gordon, head of...
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17/05/2010
Triple A Partners and OGI Capital Partners (OGICP) have formed an alliance to serve Japanese institutional investors with global alternative investments. Under this alliance, Triple A Partners and OGICP will work together to jointly offer what they call "best-in-class"...
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17/05/2010
Ping An of China Asset Management company has launched a China A-shares exchange traded fund (ETF) in Hong Kong, its first in the territory and Hong Kong's first to use the fundamental approach to stock weighting. The ETF, called...
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17/05/2010
Widening bond spreads and market volatility will result in more interesting structured products, according to Morgan Stanley. The spikes in volatility that have followed news of a hung parliament in the UK and the ongoing saga of Greece's fiscal...
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17/05/2010
Convertible bond (CB) investors are starting to make more demands of issuers as their outlook becomes more conservative and they have an increasing awareness of credit risks, according to panelists at the SunGard Hong Kong City Day on May...
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17/05/2010
Innovative Investor talks to Philip Jehle, head of the private clients unit, Asia, at Lombard Odier, about the bank's views on investment at this stage of the valuation cycle and how emergence from the financial crisis will proceed. Innovative...
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10/05/2010
Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management has strengthened its operations in North Asia by appointing Teddy Chu as head of wealth planning North Asia and Andrew Chan as Wealth Planner, both based in Hong Kong. Both will be focused on...
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10/05/2010
The Indian market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), last week issued a set of guidelines that will make credit rating agencies more accountable to the users of ratings and shed light on how they rate...
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10/05/2010
Financial Technologies Group, the Indian financial exchange and ecosystem venture firm, will launch three new "greenfield" exchanges 2010. The first, the SMX (Singapore Mercantile Exchange), will go live in August 2010. Later openings include GBOT (Global Board of Trade)...
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10/05/2010
Nomura, the investment bank, has announced that it will launch NX (NomuraCross), its non-displayed global crossing network, in Hong Kong at the end of May 2010. The move comes after the firm received approval for an automated trading services...
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10/05/2010
Institutional investors that have diversified their assets away from developed market equities during the past five to ten years have made the case for diversification, according to Towers Watson, because almost every other asset class outperformed these markets during...
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03/05/2010
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission's (SFC) proposed amendments to rules for public offers of unlisted structured products in Hong Kong are likely to drive banks toward offering simpler and more standardized products because of the sheer difficulties...
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03/05/2010
Barclays Wealth, the wealth management division of Barclays, has appointed Bryan Henning as head of global research and investments for Asia, who is based in Singapore. Henning is also a member of the Barclays Wealth Asia Pacific management committee....
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03/05/2010
Citibank Global Consumer Group has appointed Teresa To as the Citigold private client business head, and Priscilla Ng as director of customer franchise, both in Hong Kong. In her new role, To is responsible for the development and growth...
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03/05/2010
Markit, a financial information services company, has compiled a comprehensive database of global ETPs in an attempt to ease confusion over the range of products in the market. The growth in exchange-traded products (ETPs) over recent years, both in...
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03/05/2010
The foreign exchange (FX) markets have come to be regarded by high-net-worth investors as an asset class that lets them diversify their portfolios from other asset classes like stocks and bonds. Christian Nolting, regional head of portfolio management and...
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