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Fund file: China opens the door – a bit
Beijing is inching towards liberalising the Chinese funds market and will no doubt join foreign players in keeping a close eye on what happens next. Foreign banks will for the first time be allowed to...
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Huarong buys into Chinese broker as consolidation begins
By Yiqing Wang of mergermarket China’s state-owned asset managers are poised for a spending spree as they move beyond the narrow mandates initially set by the government 12 years ago. In the latest...
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Asian wealth management: east vs west
Asia, with China at its heart, is fast growing into the world’s largest asset management region and is expected to double in size by 2015, according to a report sponosored by Citi Bank and Mirae Asset...
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Fund file: Turkey’s springboard
“We have to decide to be part of somewhere. The most logical place is Europe,” says Turkish asset manager, Tolon Canpolat Aydos, in a report in Monday’s FTfm. The senior vice-president at Ak Asset...
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Fund file: are China bulls blind?
China is going to find it hard to repeat its past success, writes Edward Chancellor, a member of the asset allocation team at investment manager GMO, in a column in Monday’s FTfm. China bulls might...
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Bringing clean tech to oil-rich Tatarstan
A couple of years ago, Daniel Colbert was advising Wermuth Asset Management on a tender for the Russian administrative district of Perm to set up a €50m nanotechnology fund. WAM was shortlisted but...
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S Korea: the tiny roar of the NPS
Easier said than done. That is how investors view a pledge by South Korea’s state-run pension fund to raise its voice as the country’s biggest institutional investor, after it waved through the...
View ArticleAshmore Group: keeping the faith
The second half of 2011 was a good time to be a shareholder in Ashmore Group, the specialist emerging market fund manager. It was not such a good time to be invested in its funds. Revenues, profits and...
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Fund file: feeling hedged in in S Korea
When South Korea brought in its hedge fund amendments last year to stimulate the formation of a local industry, many predicted it would grow rapidly and soon overtake the $30bn private equity fund...
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Barclays goes to Doha
It’s one small step for Barclays but one giant leap for Qatar’s financial centre. The UK bank will be the first to base a sizeable asset management operation in Doha’s financial zone, thanks in part...
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Fund file: early mover blues in China
China, or so everyone says, will deliver untold riches in the end – so the important thing is to be there and to be able to stay the pace. But many foreign fund managers might be wondering how long...
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Go west, again: Asian asset managers look to US for funding
For what seems like ages, the punchline to introductory remarks at every other Asian themed business conference has been: “They used to say ‘Go west, young man’ – today, that should be ‘Go east!’”...
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EM equities: it’s the fundamentals
As many emerging market investors have found, GDP growth doesn’t easily translate into stock market appreciation. In fact, when it comes to investment decisions, macroeconomic factors often don’t even...
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Guest post: navigating Asia’s fragmented markets
By Paul Khoury of State Street Large asset managers from New York to New Delhi have for years sought ways to succeed in Asian markets. Now, the region is becoming pivotal in many asset managers’ plans...
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JPMorgan EM equity funds expand despite market turmoil
Sir Isaac Newton once famously cautioned against investing in the South Sea Company, but then bankrupted himself by piling heavily into the bubble in 1720 just before the crash. His mistake, says...
View ArticleJP Morgan’s Titherington: EMs will never be DMs
First the good news: the emerging market growth story is intact. EMs will continue to own a bigger and bigger share of the global economy, delivering attractive though volatile returns for investors....
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