China manager GF International enters UK market

Latest foreign group to push into Europe

Daniel Flynn
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GF International Asset Management is launching into the UK, making it the first wholly Chinese-owned investment manager to establish itself in Europe.

The company, which is a subsidiary of GF Fund Management, has chosen London for the first stage of its expansion outside Asia. It has received authorisation from the FCA, which will enable it to act as an investment manager across Europe. The company will focus on providing investment products in Chinese asset classes and advising global institutions with Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor and RQFII Renminbi Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor quotas. East meets West: Asset manager tie-ups move global Chief executive of GF Fund Management, Chuanhui Lin, said: "Our com...

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