Under the partnership with New York Life Investments, the Korean insurer is targeting domestic institutions with a new asset-allocation fund and mulling offshore business.
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Some of the biggest state funds in the Middle East are planning South Korean equity allocations, while institutions in North Asia are making similar moves.
Korea's exchange-traded funds market may be growing fast, but it's not always easy for issuers to list their products elsewhere.
iShares takes the most net new money into its Asia-Pacific ex-Japan-listed exchange-traded funds in the first quarter, at the expense of firms such as Polaris and State Street Global Advisors.
The government moves to calm a surge in trading for leveraged ETFs this month by banning credit lending temporarily. Market consensus is in favour.
The company says it has no need to raise funds to meet investment bank capital requirements and will benefit from a massive infrastructure build-up in research and sales.
Mirae Asset's acquisition of Canada's BetaPro will make it the biggest Korean provider of exchange-traded funds, and the fourth largest in Asia-Pacific ex-Japan.
The exchange-traded funds market in Korea is growing in terms of product type, asset size and trading volume.
Orgill steps down as general manager of trade body Aima in Hong Kong to build out the equities business of Samsung Securities, where she will work under SJ Hwang.
South Korea’s biggest futures firm plans to boost its global marketing team threefold to attract foreign players to its domestic derivatives market.
The imminent tax on exchange-traded funds in Korea is likely to hit returns and thus harm the development of the market, argues Bae Jae-Kyu of Samsung Asset Management.
Mirae Asset and Samsung ITMC find inventive ways to fill new QFII quotas.