Eleanor Seet has replaced CEO Deborah Ho following the rebranding of DBS Asset Management as Nikko Asset Management Asia. Other new faces have also come in.
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Asset managers should not assume that China-derived inflows will continue at the same pace as they have in past years, agree the Asia heads of four big fund management firms.
Clive Brown, Asia-Pacific chairman and COO at JP Morgan Asset Management, will transfer from London to Hong Kong to replace Hsu, showing the importance of Asia to the firm.
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The Asia head of Nikko Asset Management, an old hand in the region, outlines how some asset managers might consider changing their approach.
Nikko Asset Management will acquire DBS’s funds JVs in Malaysia and win strategic distribution via DBS Bank.
The Japanese firm has bought Australia's Tyndall Investments in the first of what is likely to be a string of regional purchases.
The $20 billion DBS Asset Management business is reportedly in play as a means of creating a bigger regional fund-management company.
The firm’s strategic move away from the retail funds business is considered a likely reason behind Pickerell’s decision to move to another, as yet unnamed, employer.
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