Asia ETF News Older Than 1 year-If your looking for specific news, using the search function will narrow down the results
$500 Million Deal-Mirae Asset Takes Over US-based Fund Management Company Global X
February 19, 2018--Mirae Asset Global Investments announced on February 19 that the company signed an agreement for the acquisition of Global X, an exchange traded funds (EFT) company in New York of the US. It took US$488 million in total to take over a 100-percent stake in Global X.
Earlier, Mirae Asset Global Investments acquired Horizon, a Canadian ETF management company in 2011, and Beta Shares in Australia. Currently, the company ranks 21st in the world while managing US$20 billion in net assets such as eight trillion won in TIGER ETF, 7.8 trillion won in Horizon ETF in Canada, 4.3 trillion won (US$3.8 billion) in Beta Share ETF in Australia and ETFs in Hong Kong, Colombia and the US.
view more
Source: businesskorea.co.kr
World's largest pension scheme turns up heat on fund manager pay
February 17, 2018--Fund managers' bumper bonuses are being scrutinised by the world's largest pension fund over fears investment professionals are being incentivised to generate short-term performance rather than long-term returns. .
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, which oversees $1.4tn in assets, has..
view more
Source: FT.com
MSCI asks India's stock exchanges to reconsider anti-competitive measures
February 15, 2018--Global index provider MSCI Inc on Thursday "strongly suggested" that India's three main stock exchanges reconsider their anti-competitive measures that restrict the accessibility of the Indian equity market to foreign exchanges.
The National Stock Exchange, BSE Ltd and Metropolitan Stock Exchange said last week that they would stop licensing products and data to foreign exchanges to prevent trading from migrating overseas.
view more
Source: Reuters
World Gold Council-Market Update: India's Budget-policy and progress
February 15, 2018--As part of the recent Union Budget announcement, Arun Jaitley, India's Finance Minister, explicitly highlighted the government's desire to formulate a comprehensive policy to develop gold as an asset class, create gold exchanges, and revamp the Gold Monetisation Scheme.
The Budget also included policies designed to boost rural incomes. Better gold policies combined with rising incomes could bode well for India's gold industry.
view more
Source: World Gold Council (WGC)
India hopes to become an AI powerhouse, with inspiration from China
February 15, 2018--Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally caught the Indian government's attention.
On Feb. 01, delivering his budget speech, finance minister Arun Jaitley told parliament that the government think-tank, Niti Aayog, will spearhead a national programme on AI, including research and development.
The intent showed in the numbers: Budget allocation for Digital India, the government's umbrella initiative to promote AI, machine learning, 3D printing, and other technologies, was almost doubled to Rs3,073 crore ($477 million) this year.
view more
Source: WEF (World Economic Forum)
JPX-ETF Monthly Report-January 2018
January 14, 2018--The JPX-ETF Monthly Report-January 2018 is now available.
view report
Source: JPX (Japan Exchange Group)
BetaShares Australian ETF Review-January 2018
February 14, 2018--NEW YEAR, NEW RECORD!
In what is typically a very quiet month for Australian markets, the ETF industry still managed to eke out a new record in terms of assets under management in the first month of 2018. Total industry FuM at the month end was $36.6B, a growth rate of 1.6% or monthly growth of ~$600m, with net new money accounting for ~75% of the growth, or $432m.
The largest flows this month by category were overwhelmingly in International Equities, with strong flows in broad market global products and Asian equities. One surprising element of flows this month vs. historical trends was the ~$40m of flows into Emerging Markets exposures, an ETF sector that has been far slower to develop to date.
view more
Source: betashares.com.au
BetaShares and Legg Mason form Active ETF strategic partnership
February 13, 2018--BetaShares and global asset manager Legg Mason have entered a strategic partnership to launch a range of high quality Active ETFs to broaden the investment options on offer to Australian investors.
BetaShares' Chief Executive Officer, Alex Vynokur, said of the partnership: 'Legg Mason is one of the world's largest and most experienced asset managers with market-leading investment management capabilities across multiple major asset classes, so we're excited to be part of this collaboration."
view more
Source: BetaShares
IMF Staff Country Reports-Republic of Korea: Selected Issues
February 13, 2018--ENHANCING THE MONETARY POLICY FRAMEWORK IN KOREA1
Inflation targeting from 1998 led to low and stable inflation, but since the global financial crisis Korea had faced more challenging conditions. As inflation expectations fell below the inflation target in 2012, the target was reduced by a percentage point to 2 percent in 2016.
This weakened the credibility of the nominal anchor provided by the target, which monetary policy can help rebuild. This Selected Issues chapter outlines a strategy to facilitate this and navigate the more challenging monetary environment, involving enhanced communication of policy interest rate intentions and inflation-forecast targeting.
A. Experience with Inflation Targeting in Korea
1. The adoption of inflation targeting (IT) in 1998 contributed to low and more stable
inflation in line with the target. This success partly reflected the benign global environment,
associated with "the great moderation;" but, then, the more challenging environment after
the global financial crisis (GFC) put inflation targeting to a sterner test.
view the IMF Staff Country Reports-Republic of Korea: Selected Issues
Source: IMF
Why Hong Kong investors are turning to the US to trade bitcoin futures
February 12, 2018--A growing number of Hong Kong investors are turning to the US market for trading bitcoin futures because they see it as safer than trading on Hong Kong's unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, according to brokers.
In the US, bitcoin futures were launched on the two major exchanges, the Cboe and CME, in December. Both have seen a rise in trading volume over the past two months.
view more
Source: South China Morning Post
If you are looking for a particuliar article and can not find it, please feel free to contact us for assistace.
