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Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
... states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The index currently includes Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. According to Dow Jones Indexes, the index is designed to serve as underlying for financial ...

Philippines axes cheques for ATMs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
The Philippines is revving up its pension scheme by phasing out archaic cheques disbursement arrangements for an ATM-based system. The country's Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) brought the new system in place last month. The fund's 81,000 ...

AXA APH appoints Asia Life CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... at the Prudential Corporation Asia across the life businesses in Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand and the Philippines. Bishop was also president and chief executive of Prudential Corporation Asia's life business in Korea and head of alternate ...

Sovereign bonds bouncing back

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2008
... issues may however not be enough to convince lenders to dive back into the market, being Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. Despite the sovereign debt issues recovery so far this calendar year, rolling 12 month debt issues are nonetheless on par ...

Asian banks still insulated from sub-prime

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... Pacific. Specifically, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam face negative industry outlooks, while Cambodia, the Philippines and Thailand have stable outlooks. "In the case of the negative industry outlooks, common reasons include the global economic ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... portfolio volatility. Investing abroad was necessary, Garcia said, due to the limited investment opportunities in the Philippines. He said ING IM's initial asset allocation proposal included global high dividend, global property securities, global fixed ...

S&P launch three new Shariah indices

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... Brazil, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey. "Muslim investors around the world have growing ...

Confidence rising in emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... pessimistic, with only 26 per cent of respondents believing their markets would improve. Besides China, India and the Philippines, respondents from the remaining countries said although they expected the markets to perform positively, they did not expect ...

IFM bolsters infrastructure team

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... $35 billion. At SBC Warburg, Mangini played a leading role in the restructuring of the BOT system of Napacor (in the Philippines), one of the largest public/private BOT programs in the world. Landman joined IFM in March 2007, and covers the evaluation ...

Citigroup taps into migrant banking needs

... regulated channels." Among the top destination countries that will benefit from the new service are Mexico, India, the Philippines and the South Asian and Latin American regions. Put simply, Citigroup will provide the website hosting, foreign exchange ...