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Safe breaks QFII record with $1bn quota to SWF
December 12, 2012--Qatar Investment Authority is awarded $1 billion in QFII quota, beating the previous high of $700 million,
as China’s foreign exchange regulator hands out $2.5 billion to 11 firms in its latest batch.
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Source: Asian Investor
Thailand's SET Index Closes Above 1,350 Points
December 12, 2012--The Stock Exchange of Thailand's (SET) main stock index (SET Index) closed up 13.24 points, or 0.99 percent, at 1,354.57 points today, a new high in the past 16 years and ten months since February 22, 1996, while other Asian main indices rose 0.5-0.8 percent.
SET President Charamporn Jotikasthira said the continued rise of the SET Index has been supported by domestic political stability and external factors, including the recent MSCI review which added four Thai stocks as components of MSCI Global Standard Indices and nine stocks in MSCI Small-Cap Indices, effective end-November. These factors have resulted in continuous net foreign buying since then. Moreover, the market mood has been cheered by improved economic indicators from Europe and the United States, easing global investors’ concerns about U.S. fiscal problems, as well as promoting hopes of more stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
read more AUM Gathered by ETF Securities (HK) Ltd Crosses HK$100M in the First Eight Trading Days Prices of physical precious metals are highly volatile and may fluctuate widely and may be affected by numerous events or factors related to its production and sale and other financial market factors. As the Fund is concentrated in physical precious metal, it is more susceptible to the effects of such price volatility than more diversified funds. Investment in the Fund may therefore be subject to losses and, in the worst case scenario, you may lose all of your investment. read more DB-Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy-Asia-Pac Weekly ETF Market Review-ETP AUM added $3bn amid bullish equity markets
Turnover Review
Assets under Management Review request report Authorization of the Merger of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group Inc. and Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. etc. view more
Adjustment Made to the Sample Stocks for SZSE Component Index, SZSE 100 Index and CNINFO 100 Index In the adjustment, SZSE Component Index will adjust 4 sample stocks, taking in Hikvision, Gold Mantis, China Merchants Property and Goertek and removing China Marine Containers, Goldwind, CSG and Angang Steel as sample stocks; SME Indices will adjust 8 sample stocks, taking in stocks including Western Securities, Beingmate, and removing stocks including New Sea Union, Qiming Information as sample stocks; ChiNext Indices will adjust 5 sample stocks, taking in stocks including Hybio Pharmaceutical, Ourpalm, and removing Flush, Avcon and other 3 stocks as sample stocks; SZSE 100 Index will adjust 8 sample stocks, taking in stocks including Kelun Pharmaceutica, Originwater, removing stocks including COFCO, Angang Steel as sample stock. CNINFO 100 Index will adjust 8 sample stocks, taking in stocks including GF Securities, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, Shanxi Xinghuacun Fen Wine, removing stocks including Angang Steel, China Baoan, China COSCO as sample stocks.
view more Delisting Announcement-Lyxor ETF INDIA (S&P CNX NIFTY) (Stock Code: FC6) view more China Macro-No more fiscal bullets,, but more quasi-fiscal bullets
The deal by Hong Kong-based GCS, a low-key private equity firm, includes a distribution agreement with ICBC to offer European-managed fund products to Asian investors.
December 12, 2012-- GCS Capital, a little-known Hong Kong-based private equity firm, has agreed to purchase Dexia Asset Management (DAM) in a €380 million ($496 million) deal which includes a distribution agreement with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
The share purchase agreement, announced yesterday, includes the full scope of business of Dexia bank’s asset management arm, which has about €80 billion in AUM and 550 staff globally. Reported estimates for the value of DAM have been cited as high as €500 million.
Source: Asian Investor
December 11, 2012--The ETFS Physical Gold ETF, the ETFS Physical Silver ETF and the ETFS Physical Platinum ETF (each the "Fund") are exchange traded funds listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "SEHK").
Each Fund's investment objective is to provide investment results, before fees and expenses, that closely correspond to the performance of the London PM Fix for gold, London Fix for silver and London PM Fix for platinum (the "Benchmark") respectively.
Source: ETF Securities Group
December 11, 2012--Market Review
Last week, all the major markets in the Asia-Pacific region remained in positive territory. Compared to the week before, from north to south:
Japan (Nikkei 225) +0.86%
Korea (KOSPI2) +1.78%
China (CSI 300) +5.01%
Hong Kong (HSI) +0.73%
Singapore (FSSTI) +1.21%
Australia (S&P/ASX 200) +1.01%
New Product Launch Review
Last week, two new products were launched in the Asia-Pacific ETP market. Simplex Asset Management Co Ltd listed two equity ETFs on Tokyo Stock Exchange tracking HSCEI Leveraged Index and HSCEI Short Index.
Asia-Pacific ETP turnover totaled $8.5bn last week, 16% up from the previous week’s total. Hong Kong reached top of the turnover ranking with $3.2bn turnover, followed by South Korea ($2.1bn), China ($2.0bn), Japan ($0.6bn), and Taiwan ($0.3bn). Among Equity ETFs, the Emerging Country, Asia-Pacific Developed Country, Leveraged Strategy, and Short Strategy ETFs had total turnovers of $5.1bn, $1.3bn, $1.0bn, and $0.5bn respectively. Among the Commodity asset class, turnover in Gold ETPs totaled $138mn.
Last week, Asia-Pacific ETP AUM increased by $3.1bn and ended at $127.7bn. On a year-to-date basis, Asia-Pacific ETP market is up by $36.2bn or 39.6% above last year’s closing.
Source: Deutsche Bank -Synthetic Equity & Index Strategy --Asia
December 11, 2012--Today (December 11, 2012), the Financial Services Agency (FSA) authorized Osaka Securities Exchange Co., Ltd. (OSE) to merge with Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc. (TSEG) and be the surviving company on January 1, 2013, under the provisions of Article 135-1 of the Financial
Instruments and Exchange Act (FIEA) (OSE is going to change its trade name to “Japan Exchange Group, Inc.”(JPXG)).
Source: FSA.gov.jp
December 10, 2012--Shenzhen Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. recently jointly announced to implement periodical adjustment to the sample stocks of SZSE Component Index, SZSE SME Index and ChiNext Indices, etc.
Meanwhile, Shenzhen Securities Information Co., Ltd. also announced to adjust the sample stocks for trans-market CNINFO Indices, such as CNINFO 100 Index. The adjustment will come into effect as of the 1st trading day of January, 2013.
Source: Shenzhen Stock Exchange
December 6, 2012--Delisting of the Lyxor ETF India (S&P CNX NIFTY)(the "absorbed ETF") from the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST") on 7 December 2012 due to the merger of the absorbed ETF into the Lyxor ETF MSCI India (Stock Code: G1N)(the "absorbing ETF")(collectively, the "ETFs")
Further to the previous announcements dated 22 October 2012 and 22 November 2012, Lyxor International Asset Management, as the manager of the ETFs (the “Manager”), hereby announces that units of the absorbing ETF will be credited to the relevant investors’ accounts with the CDP or CDP depository agent (as the case may be) by 9 a.m. Singapore time on 7 December 2012. Investors can trade their new units of the absorbing ETF on SGX-ST from 7 December 2012.
Source: Lyxor
December 6, 2012--The National People's Congress approved a fiscal deficit of Rmb800bn for this year. At first glance, this deficit appears to suggest a tightened fiscal position.
But in reality, the underlying fiscal deficit this year could amount to Rmb1.37tn − 70% more than the headline deficit figure of Rmb800bn and double the size of 2011. In our view, despite the very ambitious underlying annual deficit figure for 2012, the bullets remaining for 4Q12 are limited as expenditure has been front-loaded and revenue has been underperforming. Going forward, fiscal easing will likely rely less on budget financing and more on the non-banking financial sector (i.e. quasi-fiscal measures), which could expose vulnerabilities in the bond and the trust markets.
