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Chinese Australians return to the East

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... the Premium China Fund - a managed investment scheme which invests in companies listed in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan, among others. Value Partners Group is the underlying manager that manages the fund, which over a one-year period returned ...

Challenger selects Five Oceans for Asian equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Challenger Managed Investments has changed the investment manager of its Asian and China funds from Halbis Capital Management to Five Oceans Asset Management, resulting in a revised investment strategy. Challenger bought HSBC's asset management division ...

The shrinking big dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... the US dollar's decline was 'temporarily' short-circuited by intervention from Asian central banks (again). South Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Hong Kong bought the greenback to avoid being 'beggared' - hurt their exports - ...

ANZ buys ING Aus for $1.76bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... the transaction is part of their "back to basics" strategy, with the group also divesting its operations in Canada and Taiwan. ING said that it will continue to strengthen its life insurance business in Asia-Pacific. ANZ's billion-dollar acquisition ...

Martin Currie hires BDM for Asia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... business development executive, Ee Fang Chen, as business development director for Asia. Ee Fang was responsible for China, Taiwan and Hong Kong institutional business development at Vanguard Investments and, prior to that, he worked at Watson Wyatt ...

Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
Australian superannuation and sovereign fund assets grew over 14 per cent p.a. in local currency terms in the past five years, posting the highest growth in assets than any other country, research shows. The Watson Wyatt and Pensions & Investments research ...

Charles River adds Nomura platform

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2009
... trading algorithms cover a number of key Asian markets, including: Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, India, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. The algorithms take advantage of market microstructure, and provide investors with a comprehensive set of trading basic ...

ANZ buys RBS businesses for $687 million

ASX RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
... According to an ASX release this morning, the acquisition includes the RBS retail, wealth and commercial businesses in Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia and Hong Kong - along with institutional businesses in Taiwan, the Philippines and Vietnam. The portfolio ...

South Africa and Brazil take ESG lead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
... Petrobras topped the list of individual company holdings followed by Samsung Electronics in South Korea, China Mobile and Taiwan Semiconductor. While Brazil and South Africa were identified for their good work on ESG, survey participants said the biggest ...

AIA arises from AIG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... re-branding follows similar initiatives in Brunei, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam although the changes are still subject to relevant regulatory approvals.