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Nikko AM selects new reporting tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... reporting." Vermilion global sales and marketing director Simon Cornwell said the firm was thrilled to be working with one of Japan's largest asset managers, and sees this as a stepping stone to the Japanese market. "The latest VRS GUI is multilingual ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... outperformed the CSI 300 Index by 6.5% in 2015 with gains in Q4 alone coming in at 8.52%. On a year-to-date basis Asia ex-Japan mandated hedge funds are up 8.35%, the biggest gainer among all hedge fund regional investment mandates. They have outperformed ...

Japanese consumers a tad more confident

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
Japan's Cabinet Office reported that consumer confidence stood at 42.7 in December. While this is much higher than market expectations for a 42.3 print, it's only a slight improvement from the previous month's 42.6 reading. The overall index is derived ...

Australian expats pension protected

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland ...

Custodian appoints new APAC head

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016
... BNP Paribas Securities Services is now present in eight markets in the APAC region - Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore - where it employs about 2000 people. BNP Paribas Securities Services general manager ...

Martin Currie completes PK Investment Management deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... 100 years of combined experience of the Japanese market. Kirkby has also been appointed as lead manager of the Legg Mason Japan Absolute Alpha Fund - the Luxembourg domiciled UCITS fund. Andy Sowerby, head of sales and marketing at Martin Currie said ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... and its total installed capacity exceeds 100 gigawatts with presence in 35 countries and regions overseas including Malta, Japan, Turkey, and Vietnam. SPIC was advised by Santander Global Corporate Banking and King & Wood Mallesons. IFM Investors was ...

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... GIC members, who consist of senior investment professionals from the company's global offices, expect equities in Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific excluding Japan to outperform over the next six months. Conversely the United States should underperform ...

Lift then back to zero (even negative)?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2015
... to account for was the reflationary measures currently being implemented by the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the People's Bank of China (PBOC) and many other central banks. These measures would have to lift their respective economies ...

Nippon Life says MLC will bolster falling profits

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
Japanese life insurer Nippon Life has reported an 8% drop in ordinary profit to $2.9 billion in the six months to September 30, 2015. Nippon Life's statement attributed this to the Japanese economy "gradually [declining] due to concerns about the Chinese ...