Hong Kong regulator shuts suspected boiler rooms
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has frozen a total of HK$600,000 ($77,000, £54,000) in the bank accounts of three suspected boiler rooms.
Global ETF market soars, BlackRock earnings disappoint
The worldwide market for exchange traded funds (ETFs) saw record inflows of $350.9bn in 2015 as investors flocked to new fixed income trackers and looked outside the US for better equity returns.
Expected UK retirement income up for third year in a row
Those in the UK planning to retire in the next 12 months expect to receive an annual income that is 4% higher than their peers who planned to retire in 2015, according to Prudential.
China at a watershed, says T Rowe Price
The renewed turmoil in China’s financial markets in the first two weeks of 2016 has undermined investor sentiment, wiping trillions of dollars off the value of global stock markets. Anh Lu, lead portfolio manager for T. Rowe Price’s Asia ex-Japan Equity Strategy fund looks at whether this could mean China faces a Japanese-style ‘lost decade’ of growth.
Investment | 15 Jan 16
From sustainable ETFs to UK infrastructure: the week in product news
Blackrock, JP Morgan, Bluebay, AXA, Wermuth and GCP all launched new products this week.