Weekly Asia News (Friday)

Eze Castle Integration, a provider of strategic IT services, technology solutions and strategic consulting to hedge funds, has opened an office in Hong Kong. »

The NASDAQ OMX Group has been selected as technology partner for the New Zealand market (NZX). NASDAQ OMX will deliver its widely deployed X-stream technology to power NZX's trading platform. »

Much has been made of the poor performance of Asian hedge funds in 2011, particularly equity long/short strategies (which still dominate the regional industry) which ended th »

China’s sovereign-wealth fund, CIC, is believed to be teaming up with the world’s largest money manager BlackRock Inc to a start a fun »

Japan’s Pension Fund Association (PFA) has chosen MSCI’s RiskMetrics HedgePlatform as their hedge fund transparency provider. »

One of Asia’s biggest private equity firms, PAG, and DE Shaw, the behemoth quantitative US hedge fund, are the leading cornerstone investors for the USD1.8billion Hong Kong listing of H »

London-based Capula Investment Management is expanding its USD13billion business into Hong Kong according to sources familiar with the m »

Six of the 22 client mandates won by Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services (NTHFS) originate from Asia Pacific reported Global Custodian »

Asia’s best-performing hedge fund last year, Danny Yong’s Dymon Asia Capital (Singapore) Pte, has hired Jay Luo, the »

Northern Trust’s hedge fund administration unit, Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services LLC, has built significant momentum since the unit was formed by the acquisition of Omnium LLC in July 2011. »