Far East

Eastspring Investments, the Asia asset management arm of Prudential plc, has announced that assets under management on its Luxembourg Sicav platform rose 4% in Q1 2014 to reach $19.3bn, as attractive Asia stock and bond valuations appealed to UK and European...

Ichiro Kosuge, GSAM's head of equity Japan analyses the outlook for the Japanese market in light of Abenomics and reforms under way.

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Asset Management (SNAM), a partner firm on UBP, assesses opportunities in Japan.

The Bank of Japan will likely be forced to amplify its monetary easing programme in July or August in response to dimming prospects for GDP growth in the country, according to Nikko Asset Management’s latest Evolving Markets research report.

Steven O'Hanlon, head of Fixed Income at ACPI Investment Managers comments on what the Indian election result means for investors as BJP win's a landslide victory.

Senior industry figures are expecting more institutional investors to allocate to the ILS asset class following recent broker predictions that the catastrophe reinsurance capacity is expected to double and reach $100 billion in the next few years, the...

SooHai Lim, investment manager of the Baring ASEAN Frontiers Fund, is set to drive wider recovery in Asean this year, aided by strong exports coming off multinational direct investment in areas such as electronics manufacturing in the country.