Jame DiBiasio

Power Group’s Mackenzie Investments is focusing on building Asia investment strategies and has appointed Arris Partners to help source mandates from regional clients.

“I am well aware of the dangers of proclaiming the death of an asset class,” says James Montier at GMO, who does so anyway, advising higher cash holdings.

Korea Investment Management is about to introduce the first synthetic exchange-traded fund to Korea.

After naming Lisa Johnson director of investments in Singapore, 3i Debt Management seeks to acquire an investment platform or seed a team for its leveraged loans business.

A fresh round of RFPs will be issued by the National Pension Service to local and global custodians as the new chairman prepares for a more aggressive asset allocation.

Industry firms stump up nearly $20 million in seed capital in order to finance a state-backed online venture meant to reduce traditional distributors’ stranglehold.

Jeung Jae-ho, CIO at the $30 billion Korea Federation of Community Credit Cooperatives, calls for supervision aligned with investment objectives.

The acquisition of ING Investment Management’s Korea business will allow Macquarie to package real-asset opportunities for local institutions.

Société Générale plans a July launch of a capital-markets product with almost zero correlation to traditional asset classes.

The US Federal Reserve's exit from quantitative easing won’t spark emerging-market panic, as monetary tightening once did in 1994, believe investors, economists and analysts.

Bradford Godfrey of Eaton Vance Investment Managers says the typical core/satellite approach doesn’t work in an era of monetary stimulus.

Around $1 trillion in net inflows to emerging-market private equity last year is down on the peak, but up in terms of global allocations.