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Institutional Investors
High growth forecasted for Australia's funds industry
Double-digit growth rates for the country''s managed funds industry are expected to attract more foreign fund managers.
29 January 2001
Securities Services
Bank of Bermuda buys Tiedemann's fund administration arm
Bank of Bermuda adds $1.1 billion to its assets under administration following the purchase of Tiedemann''s back office.
19 January 2001
Mutual Funds & Markets
Cheap trading makes Hong Kong attractive
Japanese brokerage Nomura has produced a new guide to help managers to pick the cheapest stocks by transaction cost.
17 January 2001
Alternative Investments
India to ease up on venture capitalists
India''s hi-tech industry hopes changes in venture capital rules will help pull in $10 billion from foreign investors within five years.
21 December 2000
Fund Manager Q&A
ABN Amro Mellon's chief speaks on the company's new structure
Marinus Maaskant, ABN Amro Mellon''s CEO, tells why a restructuring was necessary and how sub-custodians should reinvent themselves.
19 December 2000
Institutional Investors
Baring gets the boot from Bank of Bermuda
Bank of Bermuda has dropped Baring from its $1 billion multi-manager investment service for underperformance.
19 December 2000
Mutual Funds & Markets
FTSE, Xinhua in pact to launch benchmark index for China
The 50:50 joint venture plans to launch a series of indices for foreign and domestic investors of derivatives, index funds and exchange traded funds in China.
15 December 2000
Awards
HSBC Best Sub-Custodian
12 December 2000
Pensions & Insurance
Standard Life Investment to enter MPF market in three years
The UK manager will focus on winning institutional mandates in Hong Kong''s pensions market instead of becoming a full service provider with a costly distribution network.
5 December 2000
Private Banking
LGT scours Asia for managers for its global fund
LGT investment chief says Asian managers are ''smart'' but their level of accounting and compliance standards miss the mark.
1 December 2000
Mutual Funds & Markets
Investec launches two high yield bond funds in Hong Kong
The manager expects the funds will benefit from expected rate falls led by the US in the second quarter of next year.
29 November 2000
Mutual Funds & Markets
SG targets Singapore with European tech fund
Accelerating corporate restructuring and venture capital inflows into Europe will be key to SG new fund''s success.
21 November 2000
Pensions & Insurance
UK insurer to move Asian investment headquarters to Hong Kong
Standard Life will shift its $12 billion Asian portfolio from Edinburgh to Hong Kong, with further investment capital to be raised by the insurer''s new local office.
21 November 2000
Securities Services
Custodians urge more effective approval process
Slow approval of depositories and sub custodians by Hong Kong''s pensions regulator may botch managers'' investment strategy overseas.
16 November 2000
Pensions & Insurance
Hong Kong pension funds to benchmark against FTSE
European managers have trumped their North American peers in the fight to use FTSE instead of MSCI as the benchmark for Hong Kong pension funds.
15 November 2000
Institutional Investors
ABN Amro Mellon chief questions value of consultants
Are consultants worth their salt? Marinus Maaskant of ABN AMRO Mellon shares his thought-provoking observations on custody consultants.
13 November 2000
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