The iShares MSCI China A UCITS ETF was listed on 13 April. It gives both institutional and retail investors access to China’s A-share equity market. The fund will invest in large and mid-cap companies and track the MSCI China A International Index. Despite the more accommodating nature of the A-shares market seen in the past […]
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Franklin Templeton feeder fund launches in Malaysia
The Templeton Global Equity Fund will invest in the Luxembourg-registered FTIF Templeton Global Fund (the target fund), which in turn deploys its assets into global companies. “The launch of the [feeder fund] in Malaysia is timely, given the growing sophistication of local investors who better understand the benefit of diversifying investments geographically and have become more confident […]
Fidelity taps BlackRock’s Gan for heading SE Asia private bank distribution
At BlackRock, Gan was director and head of retail segment, Singapore. During her 14 years stint, she has also worked with Schroders in senior sales role. She holds strong relationships with retail and private banks in Singapore, Fidelity said. “Our business has been demonstrating strong growth momentum over the past 18 months,” said Mike Nikou, […]
JP Morgan appoints Asia head of sovereign and institutional business
Farrell will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities in the market and for providing clients with service and strategic investment advice. Previously Farrell was head of sovereign and institutional business for South and South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. She replaces Andrew Economos who left JP Morgan to join Capital Group in May last year. […]
Mercer taps Singapore government to fill new role
At CPF, Singapore’s mandatory retirement scheme, Chua led a team responsible for managing the financial reserves of the organisation, strategic asset allocation and risk management. During his career, Chua held various positions in investment and wealth management services, including work in private banking, due diligence, risk management, research and portfolio management. Chua is based in […]
BNP Paribas WM names new Indian markets head
Honig has taken charge of a new role as head of sales, wealth management and family offices distribution for Asia-Pacific, the firm said. Bimal is based in Hong Kong and will lead the private banking teams, servicing domestic wealthy Indian clients and non-resident Indians (NRI) in Asia. He joined the firm in 2012 as […]
HFT nabs Deutsche Asset’s Patrick Liu for CEO role
Liu is based in Shanghai and succeeds Tian Ren Can, who left the firm in late February, a company spokesman said. HFT Investment Management is a joint venture between BNP Paribas Investment Partners and Haitong Securities. According to the firm, in April 2003, it became one of the first joint venture fund management companies to […]
Invesco promotes Asian equity fund managers
Dickson will take sole responsibility of managing the Asian Equity Income Fund after co-managing it with lead fund manager, Stuart Parks. Dickson specialises in Asian income investing and is responsible for covering Australia and India. Lam will join Parks in running the Invesco Perpetual Asian Fund after looking after the ex-Japan portion of its Pacific […]
Julius Baer names market head for Taiwan
Straus joins the private bank from Citigroup Private Bank, where he was the head of family offices and institutions for Asia-Pacific and covered key client relationships across the region.
Manulife hires Citigroup’s Liu as portfolio manager
Liu joined the four-member team from Citigroup and is responsible for the research, analysis and management of Hong Kong dollar and renminbi fixed income securities portfolios, the firm said. Liu replaces Ronald Chan, who now takes on the role of head of North Asia investments. Chan will drive the firm’s growth in North Asia, a […]
