Threadneedle, has this week announced the appointment of Vanessa Donegan as the firm’s newly created Head of Asia and Global Emerging Markets<
Swiss fund of funds firm, Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, this week signed a strategic partnership agreement with Korea’s Daewoo Securities.
GreensLedge Capital Markets has formed GreensLedge Asia, Tokyo Branch to expand the firm’s business activities in the Asian markets. Iku Nishino has joined GreensLedge Asia as a managing director and general manager where he will be responsible for providing capital
Hyundai’s financial services arm is set to seed a new Asia-focused hedge fund, its first-ever such venture outside of South Korea. Hyundai Securities will provide the bulk of AQG Capital Management’s initial capital, expected to be USUSD100 million, the Economic Times reports.
Daewoo Securities, a securities firm in South Korea, and Harcourt Investment Consulting have signed a partnership agreement to cooperate on the marketing and sales of various Harcourt fund of hedge funds products to South Korean investors. The agreement will also
PhillipCapital India has deployed Orc Access to meet the growing market demand for low-latency connectivity in India. PhillipCapital has completed the necessary regulatory certifications for its Orc installation and is now able to provide international trading firms with high-speed Direct
In a study entitled “Assessing the Quality of Asian Stock Market Indices”, researchers at Edhec-Risk Institute have found that all 10 indices surveyed display a pronounced lack of efficiency in terms of risk-reward trade-off. For all of them, an equal-weighted
Let’s face it: Asian hedge funds have been awful this year.
China’s slowdown appears more cyclical than structural according to Klaus Bockstaller (pictured), Head of Emerging Markets at Pictet A
Apollo Management L.P., Leon Black’s (pictured) global private equity firm, is believed to be considering the launch of a new Asia credit fund.
