Weekly Asia News (Friday)

Truston Asset Management to launch pan-Asia LSE fund

Thu, 16/02/2012 - 20:13

South Korea-based Truston Asset Management is preparing to launch a pan-Asia long/short equity fund from its Singapore office reported < »

McNicholas appointed head of sales for State Street’s Alternative Investment Servicing Solutions

Thu, 16/02/2012 - 20:08

Dan McNicholas, former director and head of financing sales for Global Mark »

Ex-Morgan Stanley head of fixed income for Asia Pacific to launch Asia-focused hedge fund

Thu, 16/02/2012 - 20:06

Ranodeb Roy (pictured), Morgan Stanley’s former head of fixed income »

Vistra Fund Services launches new Hong Kong operation

Thu, 16/02/2012 - 17:00

Vistra Fund Services has launched Vistra Fund Services Asia Limited, to complement the group’s fund administration operations in Jersey and Luxembourg. The new operation, which is based in Hong Kong, will provide fund administration and associated services to fund managers throughout Asia. »

Shipping industry looking to new sources of funding

Fri, 10/02/2012 - 14:23

The shipping sector is looking to new sources of finance in place of bank funding, according to survey by international legal practice Norton Rose Group. »

Paul Crean, co-founder, Finisterre Capital

Finisterre Capital launches first dedicated EM equity fund

Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:39

Emerging market long/short equity specialist, Finisterre Capital, this week announced the launch of the Finisterre Equity Fund, a »

Asian hedgies outperform regional equity markets in 2011

Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:34

Although performance was hardly stellar last year, Asian hedge funds nevertheless still managed to outperform the region’s volatile whipsawing markets according to new data released by Hedge »

Klaus Bockstaller, Pictet Asset Management

China slowdown ‘appears more cyclical than structural’ says Pictet Asset Management executive

Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:32

China’s slowdown appears more cyclical than structural according to Klaus Bockstaller (pictured), Head of Emerging Markets at Pictet A »

Aisling Analytics’ Mike Coleman to focus on risk as Merchant fund hits skids

Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:27

Michael Coleman (pictured), managing director of Singapore-based Aisling Analytics, is suspending a 30-year trading career to focus on risk reported Bloomberg this week, after »