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Defying the wide-spread gloom about Japan's economy, the yen rallied against the dollar and the euro yesterday, largely because of a sharp rise in Japanese bond yields. Amid fears of [...]

Private Equity A dramatic shift in investor preferences is good news for those with niche products, says Florian Gimbel Thanks to the credit crisis, the flow of private equity deals [...]

Private Equity Florian Gimbel explores whether more investors will get a bite of the bank bailout cherry Private equity managers can smell value in the German banking sector. Or so [...]

With his slicked-back hair and power suit, Alex Widmer may look like one of the giants of the 1980s mergers and acquisitions boom. Yet, instead of focusing on monstrous leveraged [...]

HONG KONG -- Morgan Stanley is planning to launch retail fund management operations in China, South Korea and Taiwan over the next two years as part of an aggressive push [...]

HONG KONG -- Nikko Asset Management Japan's third-largest fund house, has increased its exposure to the red-hotChinese mutual fund market by lifting its stake in Rongtong Fund Management to 40 [...]

Andrew Lo must be counting his blessings. The China investment market is booming and he, as the Asia head of Invesco, has found the fund management equivalent of true love. [...]

HONG KONG -- The recent decision by JPMorgan's Chinese fund joint venture to fire a senior portfolio manager has highlighted the risks of doing business in the world's fastest-growing investment [...]

When China Merchants Bank this week receivedpermission to acquire a stake in a mainland fund management joint-venture, Anthony Fasso must have breathed a sigh of relief. Over the past two [...]

HONG KONG -- The decision by China to acquire a Dollars 3bn stake in Blackstone, the US private equity firm, is the first trickle in what is expected to be [...]

HONG KONG -- The Hong Kong securities regulator is poised to relax an important licensing requirement for international hedge fund managers in a move that could help the territory fend [...]

HONG KONG -- Mellon Financial is expected to form a partnership with Southern Fund Management, one of China's biggest fund houses, in a move that would give the US group [...]

ABN Amro, the Dutch banking group, may be at the centre of an epic bidding war. Yet when it comes to its Asian private banking business, the group is more [...]

HONG KONG -- Asia-focused fund managers are expected to benefit from a sharp increase in regional insurance assets that can be outsourced to external investment firms, according to a new [...]

HONG KONG -- Some of the world's biggest fund managers are set to expand aggressively into the booming Chinese wealth management market following a rule change that could trigger a [...]

HONG KONG -- Credit Suisse's plans to ex-pand into the booming Asian wealth management market have suffered a blow with the departure of Enid Yip, one of the region's leading [...]

HONG KONG -- Beijing yesterday unveiled new rules that would allow Chinese banking clients to access overseas stock markets for the first time, in a move that could trigger a [...]

HONG KONG -- Babcock and Brown is in talks about revising its agreed ADollars 7.4bn (USDollars 6.1bn) takeover offer for Alinta in an effort to trump a rival offer for [...]

Asia may be going through a dizzying property boom, but Robert Lie shows little sign of losing his cool. A former academic at London's Cass Business School, Mr Lie has [...]

Brett Goodin has a big smile on his face. The China fund market is booming and he, as the Asia head of Fidelity International, has found a way of grabbing [...]

HONG KONG -- Some of Asia's biggest hedge funds believe the region's fledgling credit markets will catch up with their more mature counterparts in the US and Europe over the [...]

HONG KONG -- Asia's growing army of millionaires is planning to ramp up its exposure to hedge funds, private equity and derivatives-linked products over the next two years, according to [...]

The red-hot mutual fund markets of south-east Asia are likely to attract a growing number of international managers who are hoping to benefit from further market liberalisation and fast-rising levels [...]

HONG KONG -- Ask the average private investor about Lyxor Asset Management and you will probably get a blank stare. The Paris-based firm has remained in the shadow of its [...]

If ageing were an Olympic discipline, Asian societies would be vying for the gold medal. With their declining fertility rates and rosy life expectancy statistics, countries such as Japan and [...]

The red-hot mutual fund markets of south-east Asia are likely to attract a growing number of international managers who are hoping to benefit from further market liberalisation and fast-rising levels [...]

HONG KONG and NEW YORK -- Credit Suisse has plugged a gap in its global private equity business by hiring a six-strong Asia-focused team from Ritchie Capital Management, the troubled [...]

HONG KONG -- More than 95 per cent of Chinese domestic equity funds underperformed their benchmark in the first quarter of this year, because managers were forced to hold an [...]

HONG KONG -- More than 95 per cent of Chinese domestic equity funds under-performed their benchmark in the first quarter of this year, because managers were forced to hold an [...]

HONG KONG and SINGAPORE -- Singapore is facing growing pressure to tighten its hedge fund regulations amid increasing investor concerns over the city-state's laissez-faire approach to institutional fund managers. Several [...]

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That seems to be the unspoken motto of the Singapore government when it comes to hedge fund regulation. For three years Singapore and [...]

When ABP recently held an opening ceremony at its new Hong Kong office, the territory's top regulators and politicians showed up for a glass of bubbly. The star-studded crowd and [...]

HONG KONG -- Lyxor Asset Management, the specialist fund house owned by Societe Generale, is planning to list its first exchange traded funds in Hong Kong, as part of an [...]

HONG KONG -- Nikko Asset Management has become the first Japanese fund house to expand into the Dollars 110bn Chinese mutual fund market by acquiring a 20 per cent stake [...]

BEIJING and HONG KONG -- Royal Bank of Scotland and Bank of China, the country's second-biggest lender, yesterday launched a private banking business targeting rich Chinese with more than Dollars [...]

Coutts, the UK private bank that counts the Queen of England among its clients, is hoping to woo China's fast-growing army of millionaires. Unlike its foreign rivals, which are creating [...]

Two thirds of Sino-foreign fund management joint ventures have yet to reach break-even, amid increasing consolidation pressure in the word's fastest-growing mut-ual fund market. A report by McKinsey, the management [...]

HONG KONG -- Multinational technology companies are increasingly moving their Asia-Pacific headquarters from Singapore to Shanghai in a reflection of the pulling power of the China market. A new survey [...]

HONG KONG -- Beijing has for first time set a deadline for its implementation of the Basel II accord on banking regulation, amid growing pressure on Chinese lenders to toughen [...]

Beijing has for first time set a deadline for its implementation of the Basle II accord on banking regulation, amid growing pressure on Chinese lenders to toughen up their risk [...]

HONG KONG -- Penjing Asset Management, a fast-growing Hong Kong-based hedge fund group owned in part by Citigroup and Germany's billionaire Quandt family, has ended a bruising legal battle with [...]

HONG KONG -- Barclays is today expected to announce that it has hired a new head for its Asia Pacific private banking division as part of its push to become [...]

If you are struggling to rein in investment research costs, Andrew Houston will be delighted to give you a hand. A former head of research at JF Securities, Mr Houston [...]

HONG KONG -- The first start-up independent Asian hedge fund to begin with more than Dollars 1bn is expected to launch in the coming weeks, people familiar with the situation [...]

HONG KONG -- The first start-up independent Asian hedge fund to begin with more than Dollars 1bn is expected to launch in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with [...]

HONG KONG -- Ernst & Young, the professional services firm, yesterday called on Beijing to reassess the recently introduced rules on foreign takeovers of local companies amid signs that regulatory [...]

HONG KONG -- Some of the biggest investors in Asian hedge funds are shunning China-focused managers thought to have engaged in unlicensed trading in stock markets in China. KBC Alpha [...]

HONG KONG -- Last August, some of the world's most powerful money managers crammed into the meeting rooms of a discreet business hotel on the outskirts of Beijing. Sharp in [...]

HONG KONG -- Some of the biggest investors in Asian hedge funds are shunning China-focused managers that are thought to have engaged in unlicensed trading activities in the country's buoyant [...]

SEOUL and HONG KONG -- South Korea's central bank said yesterday it was considering investing part of the nation's huge international reserves in overseas stocks, and especially the blue chips [...]