Weekly Asia News (Friday)

Singaporean oil-focused hedge fund, RedWell Fund SPC, has turned its attention to the distillates market reported the Business Times this week and begun tradin »

Nomura Asia Holding, the Asian arm of the Japanese bank’s global prime brokerage division, is finally ready to laun »

Nikko Asset Management has reached an agreement with DBS Bank to acquire DBS Asset Management. »

Hedge funds investing in the emerging markets of Russia, Latin America, emerging Asia and the Middle East have produced the strongest year-to-date gains across the hedge fund industry, according to the latest data from Hedge Fund Research. »

Boutique brokerage firm, StormHarbour Partners LP, established in March 2009 by Antonio Cacorino (pictured) and Fredrick Chapey, has opened an of »

Former head of securitized products at Deutsche Bank AG, Gregory Park, is to launch a hedge fund in Hong Kong to tap into the region’s burgeoning consumer-driven demand. »

New York-headquartered Liquidnet, the off-exchange liquidity platform that provides institutional buy-side traders with secure and anonymous block trading of equities, has extended its globa »

2010 has seen a wave of hedge fund startups spring up in Asia. And as the size of the region’s alternatives industry deepens, so the level of manager expertise seems to be. »

StormHarbour Partners, a markets and financial advisory firm, has launched a broker-dealer in Tokyo, established through the integration of NSH Securities into StormHarbour Partners. »

The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has launched a Chi »