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I don’t need to work, but I’m tempted to go back
Corporate broking relationships endure for decades and build deep roots between both individuals and institutions, enabling banks to win outsized revenues from clients they serve. No wonder that a new crop of banks are expanding their ambitions
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Old Mutual Global Investors has hired Joshua Crabb as the new head of Asian equities, in a move that will see the Asian arm managing two funds worth a total of $310m. -
Ian Hannam and Neil Passmore’s EM boutique firm Strand Partners has rebranded as Hannam & Partners, folding an existing clutch of businesses together but reaffirming its business strategy.
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First it was the Hong Kong-Shanghai Stock Connect that was making all the headlines, with plans to give foreign investors access to China stocks and mainland investors access to Hong Kong stocks. Now it’s the turn of Taiwan and Singapore, with the two exchanges signing an agreement on September 10 to develop a cross-border trading link.
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Hong Kong's and Shanghai’s stock exchanges and clearing houses finalised on Thursday an agreement to set up their Stock Connect mutual equity trading scheme. The pilot initiative will work alongside the successful RQFII quota programme to lay the foundation for the gradual opening of China’s capital account.
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Heptagon Capital, a UK-based asset manager, has partnered with China's Harvest Global Investments to open fundraising for the first daily traded and actively managed China A shares UCITS fund. Meanwhile Ashmore Group, another UK fund manager, has announced three SICAV funds covering Chinese debt and equities.
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It is probably no coincidence that in the week Alibaba is due to start pre-marketing its $20bn IPO, the Hong Kong Exchange has launched a concept paper on whether it should allow dual class shareholdings.
