The number of family offices in Asia is set to triple from 500 to 1,500 within the next seven to 10 years according to Citigroup reported Bloomberg this w
Two former Rabobank traders, Chin Pu Ma and Chien Wang have just launched an Asia-focused opportunistic equity l/s hedge fund on
Asia’s wealthiest investors are turning to family offices to manage their wealth rather than entrusting their assets to private banks reported Bloomberg this week. According to a Merrill Lynch global wealth management report Asia’s HNW individual population grew 9.7 per
Wednesday’s outage at the Singapore Exchange (SGX), which disrupted trading activity for several hours, was caused by a malfunction in the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems deployed at the SGX data centre. Power is supplied to the data centre from
Just 18 months after starting development work, Clearstream and Standard Chartered Bank have now implemented a collateral management service for Singapore. From 17 November onwards, mutual customers will be able to consolidate their assets held across both institutions into one
After Hedgeweek reported at the end of June that Sunwah International Asset Management (the investment management arm of Sunwah International Ltd) was pre
The bloodbath continued for hedge funds in August as they struggled to come to terms with whipsaw markets, driven by investor fear of economic uncertainty in Europe and the US.
According to data from Credit Suisse Group AG’s prime brokerage unit, approximately 80 Asia-focused hedge funds reported average losses of -2 per cent and
This year has already proved bountiful for Asian hedge funds.
Emerging market-focused hedge funds continue to curry favour with investors as their faith in a European and US economic recovery wavers.
