Baring vs fidelity china fund

Morgan Stanley Investment Management recently warned about a bubble in the onshore market, as the amount of money that inexperienced and first-time investors are borrowing on margin to buy stocks is uncomfortably high. Chinese retail investors are trying to play the valuation gap between China’s A-shares and their identical H-share counterparts listed in Hong Kong. As […]

Huge pile of cash Manulife

Investors across the region rely heavily on cash savings, making it difficult to meet their key financial goals, the firm said. Across Asia, local-currency cash holdings account for a “disproportionately” large percentage of self-reported assets at about 37%. This rises to about 42% if foreign-currency cash holdings are added. Source: Manulife Asset Management The comparatively […]

Asian fund passport targeted for 2016 launch

Finance officials and regulators from the six Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) members who are leading the development of the Asia Region Fund Passport have just concluded a week of meetings in Singapore to iron out the details of the proposal. The six countries are Australia, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. “We […]

Morgan Stanley floats Asia fixed income fund

The fund will invest in a range of Asia ex-Japan fixed income securities with no sector limitations.  Through a top-down macro assessment process, the fund will invest in hard and local currency debt, sovereign and corporate debt, the firm said.  “Following a growing emphasis on Asian bonds within the global strategy, the decision to launch […]

BMO clusters ETFs to offer portfolio strategies

Prakash said BMO is not putting funds together, but portfolio strategies that are actually implemented by the intermediaries. “The implementation happens with respect to the intermediary using their platform and clients benefit from the asset allocation decision. We would work with intermediaries so they are able to offer this to their client base.” ETFs have […]

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