Asia
Invesco promotes Asian equity fund managers
Oxfordshire-based investment manager, Invesco Perpetual, has promoted fund managers – Tim Dickson and William Lam – to manage two of the firm’s Asian funds.
Luxembourg investors now benefit from China RQFII scheme
Luxembourg’s global investor base can now take advantage of the Grand Duchy’s renminbi qualified foreign institutional investor (RQFII) program, enabling them to directly invest in the Chinese capital market.
OMGI extends Asia push amid tough competition
Product launches, additional local staff and Hong Kong-domiciled funds are part of the plan as Old Mutual Global Investors extends an aggressive Asia expansion, Warren Tonkinson, head of distribution, tells Fund Selector Asia.
QFII investors bogged down by burdensome tax filings
International investors are finding the compliance around qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) licences burdensome as they prepare to file their tax returns before the July deadline.
Benchmark freedom and EM investing
If the manager is freed from the benchmark, emerging markets offer many opportunities from a stock-picker’s perspective, particularly if headlines are negative, according to Ross Teverson, head of strategy for global emerging markets at Jupiter Asset Management.