Dr Hing Tang: ‘Dim sum’ bond market indispensible to global investors
Dr Hing Tang, Managing Director, BOCI-Prudential Asset Management
What makes a good asset manager? Dr Hing Tang explains the four key areas that have made BOCI-Prudential Asset Management a market leader: good corporate governance, a robust investment process, product innovation, and sensible partnerships. He also discusses investors’ attraction to China, the steadily expanding ‘dim sum’ bond market, and considers some of the traditional investment strategies that are no longer relevant in today’s volatile markets.
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Nicholas Brooke, Chairman, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation
Hong Kong Science and Technology Park is home to 380 companies, many of which are SMEs in need of some assistance to bring an idea to a commercial application. Nicholas Brooke outlines the range of services the park can provide for them, its plan to set the bar for green technologies, and how China’s desire to address climate change will present major opportunities.
August 20, 2012 Category: Investment
Robert Lang, Managing Director, HSBC Insurance Businesses Hong Kong
The HSBC brand has long focused on Asia and other emerging markets to secure strong and sustainable growth; in 2010 for example, Hong Kong alone contributed five percent of the group’s profits. Robert Lang discusses how HSBC Insurance is responding to the challenges presented by the still thriving city-state.
November 7, 2011 Category: Insurance & Pensions
David Fried, Group GM and Group Head of Insurance, HSBC
We talk to HSBC Insurance’s David Fried on the company’s status as one of the world’s leading bancassurers, its work in emerging markets, and how it plans to develop its products for the world’s aging population.
October 27, 2010 Category: Insurance & PensionsRelated by the tag Investment Management
Rohit Walia, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, Alpen Capital
Strategic investors are lining up to back a wave of infrastructure projects across the GCC, and the IMF cites strong external balances and rising oil prices in what it terms a “positive short-to-medium term economic outlook” for the region. Rohit Walia discusses what differentiates Alpen Capital in this overbanked market, its focus on the GCC-India business corridor, and its involvement in one of the largest transactions the UAE has seen.
January 14, 2013 Category: Investment
Sean Hawkshaw, CEO, Kleinwort Benson Investors
In 2004, Kleinwort Benson Investors moved away from being a traditional balanced fund manager into more specialist areas. They were one of the first fund managers to recognise the value of environmental investing in areas such as water, alternative energy, climate change and agriculture. Sean Hawkshaw explains how, after a slow start, this strategy has grown into a great success, and how Kleinwort Benson Investors are now focusing on emerging markets “with a different twist.”
July 25, 2012 Category: Investment
Datin Maznah Mahbob, CEO, Funds Management Division, a member of the AmBank Group
AmInvestment Bank is a global asset management house, delivering conventional and Islamic funds. Since its inception 30 years ago the Funds Management Division has grown its funds from $100m to $10bn, and today the company dominates in the fixed income segment. Datin Maznah Mahbob explains how the company’s expertise was honed by the Asian financial crisis, its obsession with risk management, and moving into global sukuk.
June 27, 2012 Category: Investment