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Senior reporter, AsianInvestor

Simon Osborne is a reporter at AsianInvestor. He writes about alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. Before he became a journalist, he worked in several financial institutions. He has been in Asia since 1994.



Recent articles by Simon Osborne

People Moves
UBS replaces risk chief in wake of trading scandal
UBS has replaced its head of risk, Maureen Miskovic, with Philip Lofts as the bank attempts to reorganise its management after a $2.3 billion trading loss earlier this year.
2 December 2011
People Moves
Carlyle adds Sanghyun Lee as managing director in Seoul
Sanghyun Lee joins Carlyle from Affinity Equity to head its Korean investment business.
1 November 2011
View Point
Dubai utopia still on hold
One year on, Bob McMillen of MAC Capital gives his views on how Dubai has coped with the crisis, and how it is emerging again.
2 November 2010
Debt
Low lending standards provide NPL opportunities in China
Panellists at the AsianInvestor and FinanceAsia Asia-Pacific Debt Investor Forum mull over why demand for Chinese distressed assets is relatively low.
12 July 2010
Debt
International investors don't favour the Asian distressed look
Distress elsewhere in the world is commanding more investor interest than the Asian variety, say a panel of specialists on the subject.
10 May 2010
View Point
Distressed investors mull challenges posed by Chinese law
Alternative fund managers chew over some legal niceties in Tokyo, with a focus on opportunities in China.
24 November 2009
View Point
Secondary distressed investors spy new angles
Nice guys can come second. Participants in the secondary market for distressed debt assess the environment.
20 November 2009
View Point
NPLs and SMEs to provide distressed opportunities
Distressed specialists define their terminology and give their take on the market at the second AsianInvestor/FinanceAsia Distressed and Troubled Asset Investing Summit, held ...
19 November 2009
View Point
Altman’s vintage year for distressed is slightly corked
The quivering heaps of toxic debt are being alleviated by government stimulus and unprecedented liquidity.
17 November 2009
View Point
‘China’s unofficial empire’, as perceived by Niall Ferguson
Economic globalisation is vulnerable to the tectonic plates of empire, says historian Niall Ferguson at the CLSA conference in Hong Kong.
22 September 2009
People Moves
Pacific Alliance lures distressed quartet from Deutsche
A team of special situations and distressed experts hops from Deutsche Bank to Pacific Alliance.
2 September 2009
View Point
Tackling the numpties left behind in distressed deals
Delegates at the AsianInvestor/FinanceAsia distressed debt summit wonder what should be done with the employees left in the vortex after a control switch.
30 April 2009
View Point
A vintage year for failures
Speaking at the FinanceAsia and AsianInvestor distressed investing conference, the Patron Saint of Bankruptcy, Professor Ed Altman, believes that we are entering a golden age ...
29 April 2009
M&A
Persistent Edge offers hedge fund expertise to CIC
All of Persistent Edge’s funds are up in 2008. Now the funds of funds house is setting its sights on helping China Investment Corporation manage its money.
18 December 2008
Cash
Citi clears Bangladesh
Citi will provide direct custody and clearing services in Bangladesh.
17 December 2008
View Point
CLSA versus the smog monster
CLSA chairman Rob Morrison talks about how running a modern international corporation together with working to tackle a hot, smoky world are not incompatible.
3 December 2008
Business Moves
Citi rescue too late for Singapore prime broking star
Citi revamps its Singapore prime broking team as the downturn in hedge fund capital raising retards asset growth in the sector.
25 November 2008
People Moves
Kurt Baker departs Morgan Stanley
Kurt Baker, head of prime broking at Morgan Stanley and one of the region's most senior and long-standing prime broking executives, leaves the firm.
19 November 2008
M&A
Merrill closes new Asian property fund
Merrill Lynch puts the finishing touches to its Asian Real Estate Opportunity Fund having raised $2.65 billion.
15 October 2008
View Point
Credit crisis needs a Churchill
A bulldog spirit is required, says Hong Kong hedge fund manager Paul Sheehan, who puts forward a proposal for addressing the credit crisis.
14 October 2008
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