The choice of multi-asset income products available in Hong Kong has further expanded, after inflows into such strategies grew 600% year-on-year in early 2013.
Currency interventions by the city's de-facto central bank to maintain the dollar peg led to a jump in call warrants betting on HKEx's stock. It could spell good news for market turnover.
The Banking & Payments Authority, a sovereign wealth fund for the oil reserves of the new nation of Timor-Leste, makes its first investment steps abroad.
Listed institutional investors such as insurance companies and commercial banks have seen their stocks pummelled but there is little evidence to support bears' worries.