Eastspring hopes to tap into Asian investors’ strong demand for fixed maturity products.

Eastspring hopes to tap into Asian investors’ strong demand for fixed maturity products.
The popularity of fixed income ETFs is narrowing the gap between onshore and offshore funds in Taiwan, according to Morningstar.
As social unrest continues, Hong Kong’s high net worth investors are warming to Portugal’s residence scheme aimed at attracting overseas money.
However, in the SAR, sustainable investing is still all about returns.
Downward pressure on markets in Germany and Hong Kong left little hope that the index-tracking products would gather more assets.
The firm has launched a second version of the fixed maturity product (FMP) it debuted in July.
Despite the difficult political and economic environment in Hong Kong, the firm hopes to eventually sell the newly SFC-authorised products.
Invesco tripled fixed maturity product assets in one year, followed by four other foreign firms that also had high net sales.
Ongoing protests and the trade dispute have hit the local market, but diversified Hong Kong equity funds remain resilient, shored up by mainland allocations.
The ongoing Japan-Korea trade dispute has put all actively-managed Korean equity funds underwater this year.
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