Mainland-owned Overseas Chinese Investment Management has a hedge fund operation in Singapore that hopes to benefit as China loosens capital controls and opens its financial industry.
Category: Industry views
Investec: Investor relations in China slow to develop
Mainland-listed companies still need to improve transparency, which remains an obstacle to institutional investment, said Greg Kuhnert, portfolio manager at Investec Asset Management.
Pictet: Regulation a big driver of IT security
Data protection regulations, particularly in Europe, are expected to provide a boost to IT security company earnings, according to Yves Kramer, London-based senior investment manager for thematic equities at Pictet Asset Management.
T Rowe Price: EM value overdue for catch-up
Emerging market value stocks are overdue for a catch-up with the two-year-old rally in emerging market growth equities, argues T Rowe Price’s Ernest Yeung.
Robeco: Fintech opportunities in tech upgrades
Artificial intelligence, blockchain and big data create a lot of buzz, but many fintech opportunities lie in old technologies, such as banks’ core systems that are in desperate need of updating, argues Partick Lemmens, senior portfolio manager at Robeco.
Lux association doesn’t fear local funds
The growth and proliferation of locally domiciled mutual funds in Hong Kong is not a threat to the popularity of Ucits funds, already widely used in the territory, argues Camille Thommes, director general of the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI).
BNPP AM to expand Asia fixed income team
BNP Paribas Asset Management plans a big build-out of its regional fixed income team, including a portfolio manager in Singapore and analysts in Hong Kong and mainland China.
A look at Singapore’s AML rules for fund managers
Post-1MDB, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has reinforced its focus on anti-money laundering (AML). Damayanti Shahani provides a snapshot of what a fund management firm can expect.
Prestige AM: New rules to boost private lending
New international accounting rules that came into force on 1 January will impede banks’ lending activity, making room for private lending market, according to Craig Reeves, founder of Prestige Funds.
New HKEx rules may pull in China’s tech giants
If the regulator allows the weighted voting rights structure, it will tilt Hong Kong’s stock market toward tech stocks, bringing higher valuations but also increased volatility, argues Tobias Bland, CEO of Enhanced Investment Products.
