Vanguard, which now has five ETFs in Hong Kong, said the total expense ratio (TER) of the new fund would be 0.25% annually, making it the lowest cost US equity ETF available in the special administrative region of China. “Today’s launch of the Vanguard S&P 500 Index ETF demonstrates our ongoing commitment to the Hong […]
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RHB Islamic global developed market fund
The RHB Islamic Global Developed Markets Fund aims to offer capital growth by investing in Shariah-complaint companies listed in developed markets.
Hong Kong launches second sukuk
The government’ second Islamic bond offering has attracted $2bn in orders, mainly from private banks and fund managers in the Middle East and Asia.
Capital Group expands North Asia sales team
In Korea, Andrew Hwang joined the firm as a director of strategic solutions. Hwang was poached from Janus Capital, where he was responsible for non-Japan Asia business development. Prior to that, he had also worked with BNY Mellon Asset Management for product development and strategy in the region. In Taiwan, Berry Hsieh came over from […]
East Capital gets HK asset management license
The firm set up its Hong Kong office in 2007 and has been investing in Asia since 2010. “We have ambitious plans for further growth in the region as we see increasing interest for our Asian products from our global investor base,” said Karine Hirn, partner and co-founder of the firm. Hirn leads the Hong […]
Asian managers one step ahead in social media
Asian fund managers have been driven toward social media because of a lack of professional data across parts of the Asian continent, meaning more investors turned to public sources instead. Another finding was that the educated population in Asia was better connected than investors in the US and Europe. The research by Greenwich, a provider […]
Asia worlds richest region by 2016
Asia-Pacific is expected to overtake North America as the region with the largest amount of private wealth by 2016, according to a report by the Boston Consulting Group.
Mirae and the pan-Asian question
Homegrown fund houses building a pan-Asian presence have had “unspectacular results”, according to a recent report. But Ashley Dale, chief marketing officer at Mirae Global AM, said it’s much too early to make that conclusion.
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 […]
UCITS funds are diminshing in Asia
“It is also pointless for UCITS managers to get excited about the imminent mutual recognition of funds (MRF) scheme between China and Hong Kong, as funds sold under this scheme have to be locally domiciled,” added Rachel Poh, senior analyst. The report is an about-face for Cerulli, which in the past said that the threat to […]
