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Liquidnet increases access to India equity trading

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... in markets that up until now have been too illiquid to invest in." Liquidnet made public its quarterly results in Asia Pacific, which showed the company benefitting from strong demand across the region for safe access to block trading among large institutions. ...

HK funds market climbs to A$2.4tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... A$200 billion sourced from overseas investors, according to Rainmaker research. Australia is thus the second largest Asia-Pacific funds management market ex-Japan. But while Australia's FUM business is driven by superannuation inflows of A$144 billion ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... regulatory reporting requirements, according to BNP Paribas. Madhu Gayer, head of investment reporting and performance for Asia-Pacific at BNP Paribas Securities Services said institutional investors are increasing their allocation to alternative asset ...

Standard Life Investment property specialist joins Neuberger Berman

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Berman has appointed former Standard Life Investment's executive Anton Kwang as a senior portfolio manager for the Asia Pacific region. To be based in Hong Kong, Kwang's appointment marks an expansion of the company's global real estate securities group ...

PROFILE: State Street Global Advisors CEO Lochiel Crafter

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
Lochiel Crafter was appointed head of the State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) business in Australia and Asia Pacific a year ago. Since then, a number of mandates, appointments and new strategies have kept the company and its CEO busy. By Laura Millan. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... poised to fall into foreign hands after accepting a $1.34 billion takeover offer from Hong Kong-based investment firm First Pacific and Singapore's Wilmar International.

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... takeover of Goodman Fielder by Singapore-based Agribusiness Wilmar International and Hong Kong-listed investment firm First Pacific goes ahead after the food group's shares were placed in a trading halt on Monday. On Monday, the Australian market fell ...

Standard Life expands real estate team

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
Standard Life Investments has appointed former LaSalle Investment Management exec, Toshio Tangiku as Asia-Pacific real estate equities analyst. Tangiku previously worked at LaSalle where he worked from 2008 to this year. Tangiku will be based in Hong ...

Morningstar re-jigs Australasian team

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... schedule and chairing the ratings commission. Both Whitelaw and Murphy will report to the director of manager research, Asia-Pacific Grant Kennaway. Whitelaw has worked in the Australasian manager research team for the past four years. Before joining ...

Morningstar launches stewardship ratings in Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... construct and manage portfolios of high-quality investments," Morningstar head of equity and credit research for Asia Pacific Joel Bloomer said. "The stewardship rating deploys a consistent framework designed to facilitate more meaningful security comparisons ...