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Top 10 best & worst performing stocks in Asia by end of April 2005, plus comparison of bond index in Asia, currency rates and movement of Asian equity indices and oil prices.

America's stock exchanges and banks have made a tidy living from listing China's restructured state-owned enterprises and burgeoning private companies. With zealous US regulation about to bite and the whiff of litigation in the air, China's managers are having second thoughts about listing in America and may now stay closer to home. By Chris Leahy

The Carribbean, with its tropical climate and island lifestyle is a difficult place to beat when it comes to re-charging the batteries.

Korea's financial watchdog has been taking issue with the foreign media, with the local press occasionally entering the fray.

Citic Capital's chief executive Zhang Yichen is concentrating on finding smaller companies in China that have growth potential, but need a leg up with capital and management skills. Large SOEs are not the most attractive clients, he says, because over time they will lose market share. "There's are not many well-managed companies in China," he says. As a Harbin native, Zhang had been advising the Harbin municipal government for several years about investment strategy. "I told them to attract smart foreign investment, you have to be willing to let go of the best-run companies instead of the worst-run companies."

China's home-grown investment banks simply can't pay the kinds of salaries that their global peers do. It means that they are often left on the sidelines when it comes to landing plum deals in their own market. How are they attempting to compete against the odds.

It's a relatively new asset class in India, yet the private equity market is sizzling, with investment set to double in 2005 from more than US$1 billion last year as global players see the potential. As more private equity funds are looking to raise capital to invest they are finding the competition for money is even hotter. Yassir A. Pitalwalla reports.

LGT discusses an alternative way to look at investing and making money.

Macquarie Bank's opportunistic purchase of ING's Asian cash equity business gave it distribution throughout the region. Andrew Hutchings asks whether the bank will now be able to do the deals that will give it the securities to distribute.

ING has steadily refocused its Asian exposure. Despite claims by the bank that it could be a contender in the region's markets, the sale of its cash equities business to Macquarie Bank nearly 12 months ago precipitated a paring back of its already weak investment banking operation. Richard Morrow considers the route that ING has now decided to take.

Macquarie Bank's opportunistic purchase of ING's Asian cash equity business nine months ago gave it distribution throughout the region. Andrew Hutchings asks whether the bank will now be able to do the deals that will give it the securities to distribute?

Asia Pacific's capital market volumes continue to fall behind the searing pace set in 2004. Year to date 2005, US$42.9 billion has been raised, which is down 25% on the US$56.9 billion recorded this time last year. In April alone the disparity was almost 50% with just US$6.4 billion worth of deals recorded compared with over US$12 billion in April 2004.