The nation’s largest institutional investor, the Employees Provident Fund, has been urging fund houses to expand their investment teams, increasing its own staff as AUM rises.
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As the buy-side shifts to electronic trading for low-touch orders, banks' program trading desks are redefining themselves to assume more of a hand-holding role.
The bank's Asia-Pacific joint head of equities, John Adair, argues the model of running proprietary and client equity business in parallel is unsustainable in this regulatory environment.
The buy-side praises Nomura's move to shift most equities execution work to its well-regarded affiliate, Instinet – but job losses are imminent.
Hong Kong's securities regulator should give the stock exchange more responsibility for monitoring high-frequency trading, they argue.
Heads of sales trading acknowledge the importance of protecting the order flow of buy-side clients and say they have been investing to generate efficiencies.
The bank adds Wendy Liu from RBS, which is selling its cash equities business to CIMB. Nomura is reshuffling as it builds its Asia equity offering.
Tsukasa Miyachi joins as a managing director to focus on Indonesia as one of a quartet of additions in Southeast Asia. The firm has over 100 private bankers covering Asia-Pacific.
The firm poaches Deutsche PWM’s head of investment advisory for North Asia to take up a new role as regional head of products within wealth management. Further hires are on the way.
The Japanese investment bank says it is now offering value-add customised analysis which it describes as the next generation to TradeSpex.
BlackRock, Credit Suisse and Nomura have been chosen to act as transition managers by Korea's National Pension Service, as it increasingly looks to outsource its investments.
Under the Nomura brand, many of the former Lehman Brothers’ Asian prime broking team are back in business.