China and Japan dominate fund flows

Resurgent markets and easy monetary policies in China and Japan helped drive new inflows, with China representing $30.9bn, almost the same as Japan with $30.8bn.   Looking at asset classes, concern over volatility likely contributed to the robust capital flows into mixed flexible (mixed asset) products, which accounted for $27.4bn in capital flows. A major […]

China’s fund industry faces talent shortage

China’s ecommerce firms are moving into financial services, putting competitive pressure on fund management companies (FMCs). The research firm cited as examples Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial’s reported plan to acquire a stake in Tebon Fund Management and Tencent establishing WeBank, China’s first online bank, last year. “The only viable online opportunity FMCs can access for […]

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