After launching a fixed income mutual fund in China, Taiwan's Yuanta will roll out a more unusual cross-border ETF, a big step forward for China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
AZ Fund Management says it will launch an equity fund and a pure fixed income fund, while Asia Capital Reinsurance and Taishin Securities Investment Trust have also received QFII licences.
Conference participants crowded into the Mandarin Oriental in Kuala Lumpur on December 6 and 7 for AsianInvestor's 3rd annual SEA Institutional Investment Forum.
Money poured into long-term bond funds in the US and Europe in the third quarter of 2010, yet the overall asset figure slid 0.6% on the back of a €24 billion equities outflow in the US.
The country's output may decrease to as low as 7.5% in the first quarter next year, but this is a more sustainable level of growth, say China observers.