13-2-2009

 

China Hedge Weekly

 

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Top 10 The Greater China Hedge Fund Events, 2008 - Poll Result
(The list is not shown in particular order)
- Several Greater China hedge funds went bust and lock up
- Shanghai's hedge fund street, Mingsheng Road
- BOC acquired Swiss hedge fund manager
- Global hedge funds opened office in HK, Beijing and other 2-tier Chinese cities
- Domestic hedge fund launched new strategies
- China began margin trading and short selling test
- First hedge fund products appeared in China-based private banking wealth management
- CIC appointed professionals to handle hedge funds and alternative investments
- Tough year for Chinese local hedge funds
- Greater China hedge fund manager rankings crashed

China Hedge, a leading hedge fund media & research advisory firm in China, classified and summarized the important events which occurred in the Greater China over the past year. China Hedge invited global fund managers, Greater China hedge fund managers, China domestic private investment fund managers, mutual fund managers, private bankers, professionals from hedge fund services companies and providers, government officials, financial and hedge fund media, and readers to select the top 10 events in the Greater China Hedge Fund Industry happened last year. Out of the 29 Events, the final “2008 Top 10 Greater China Hedge Fund Events” have be named accordingly by poll result. The final result was also a comprehensive industry review for the overall development of hedge fund industry in China in 2008.
To refer the detailed candidate events, please refer the link of the issue dated at
14 January 2009.

A Chinese hedge fund manager denied he was wanted by police
Thursday, 12 February 2009
A Chinese hedge fund manager denied he was wanted by the police in an interview with Phoenix.com recently

Zhao Danyang plans to raise an new H-share hedge fund
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Zhao Danyang had cleared all his A-share funds at the beginning of last year and now only kept a H-share open-end fund...


Chairman of CCB may take the role of new CSRC chairman
Shang Fulin, current chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), will leave the regulator, according to domestic media sources.


International institutions slow down QFII business
Thursday, 12 February 2009
Since the launch of qualified foreign institutional investor scheme, getting the license had been an important objective for international institutions to access the China market...


Taikang Asset Management won several EA contacts
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Recently Taikang Asset Management Co Ltd had successfully won several enterprise annuities contacts from companies...


The first local hedge fund partnership outperformed the market in 2008
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
The first local hedge fund partnership was established in July 2007 and now managed three local hedge fund products.


70% China hedge funds outperformed the Shanghai index on January
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Most domestic China hedge funds had reported positive returns this January...


Mutual fund managed accounts to have barriers to entry lowered
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Rumors have gone into overdrive suggesting that rules governing fund companies may be liberalized, allowing individual clients with less than RMB 50 million currently required to receive managed account services as well, and also permit fund companies to serve several clients on the same account...

Revised transfer fee of RMB 500K signals the end of sponsor representatives' high-roller status
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
According to the CSRC, 642 people passed the sponsor representatives exam in 2008, exceeding the total number of qualified sponsor representatives produced in the past three years by a wide margin of 151...


Ten futures houses won China's industry awards
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Ten China futures companies won industry awards by a list released in Shanghai...

Beijing Equity Exchange and Great Wall AM signed strategic partnership agreement on distressed asset
Monday, 9 February 2009
Beijing Equity Exchange recently joined Great Wall Asset Management Co to establish strategic partnership on distressed financial asset business...


QDII funds on the rebound
Monday, 9 February 2009
QDII funds were savaged by the market turmoil of 2008...

New local hedge fund launched
(Please refer the related news at the issue of
5 December 2008)

China Alternative Alternatives (Series 5): China fine arts market in limelight
Monday, 9 February 2009
While the bad news coming from different markets worldwide, China's fine arts product got investors' attention and had become a safe bay for money.

Please refer the related news at the issue of
17 October 2008 titled "The bubble bursts for Pu'er tea)
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