Nikko Asset Management (Nikko AM) has appointed Aoifinn Devitt as Head of World Series Fund Platform to lead and manage the expansion of the company’s manager selection business from primarily Japan, to Europe and other parts of Asia. The World
Asia’s budding hedge-fund industry is springing to life, attracting the most money this year since pre-global financial crisis and beating returns in the US and Europe. Net inflows of USD14.4 billion in the nine months ended Sept. 30 have brought total
NYSE Technologies has opened its latest Liquidity Center installation located in Tokyo, Japan. With growth in Asian markets outpacing many others in the world, the NYSE Technologies Tokyo Liquidity Center offers customers the ability to access these markets with unparalleled
The exodus of former Walkers and Maples and Calder partners to burgeoning boutique law firm Thorp Alberga continues. Linda Martin, Anne Todd and Matthew Stocker, have joined five of their former colleagues to practice Cayman Islands and BVI law from
Asset management institutions in Japan are shifting to electronic trading, with 50 per cent using electronic trading and more than 75 per cent of those firms having increased their use since 2010, according to a survey by Nomura Research Institute
Japan’s Pension Fund Association (PFA) has chosen MSCI’s RiskMetrics HedgePlatform as their hedge fund transparency provider. PFA, which currently manages JPY10 trillion (USD 120 billion), was established under the Employees’ Pension Insurance Act in Japan. It provides pension benefits to
Laven Partners, the global consultancy to the alternative industry, and GFIA’s funds research practice have joined up their resources and processes in Asia to provide a fully comprehensive operational due diligence and compliance service based in Singapore. This union is
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
Leaders of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) have signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) regarding the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate on a cross-border basis in the
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange are cooperating in the development of the commodity derivatives markets in both China and Singapore. The two exchanges signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation in Shanghai, China, on 19 October
