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TRENDS (Published Date :11/1/2012)

MARKET PRESENCE

Edge Asset Management moves on Asia
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,Hong Kong
Seattle-headquartered Edge Asset Management is looking to make a foray into the Asian market after it initiated a road show for its equity income strategies in Asia in September.

FRONTIER MARKETS

Lloyd George Management gets off the ground in Myanmar
By Toby Garrod
Category :Myanmar
Lloyd George Management has launched a Myanmar-focussed fund, the Irrawaddy Growth Fund, in order to raise capital for investment in the country’s nascent commercial sector.

INSURANCE

Insurance asset managers head to alternatives
By David Macfarlane
Category :Global
With a depressed economic outlook, it has been tough for insurance asset managers to find yield. Three of the main insurance players in Hong Kong tell Asia Asset Management about the asset classes that are providing the best returns at the moment.

REGULATION

CIRC may open up RQFII programme to insurers
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China,Hong Kong
The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) is considering allowing domestic insurers to participate in the RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) programme.

FINANCIAL MARKETS

Fund managers see turning point in Indian equities
By Toby Garrod
Category :India,Asia,Singapore,Europe,United Kingdom
Fund managers say the reappointment of Palaniappan Chidambaram as Finance Minister of India bodes very well for equity market investors, following an extended spate of negatives that have hurt the mammoth economy in recent years.

MARKET ACCESS

Taishin SITE eyes China after winning QFII quota
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Taiwan
Taishin Securities Investment Trust (Taishin SITE), one of Taiwan’s largest asset managers, is looking to jump on the qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) bandwagon after the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) eased the threshold for QFII applicants in July.

RESEARCH

Top investment managers lose assets
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global
Assets managed by the world’s largest 500 fund managers fell by around 3% to US$63 trillion in 2011, breaking a trend of the last two years which had seen assets rise by 16% and 4% in 2009 and 2010, respectively, according to the P&I / Towers Watson World 500.
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