asia pacific

Colin Ng, head of Asian equities at Barings, has left the group to pursue other opportunities.

Asian stock markets echoed Wall Street's overnight slump as investors fretted over declining Japanese export figures.

China's decision to cut interest rates for the first time since December 2008 has met with a mixed response as investors try to fathom the implications of the move.

The Malaysian branch of CIMB bank has snapped up the Royal Bank of Scotland's Asia Pacific units as the bank makes further moves to streamline operations.

The Prusik Asian Equity Income fund has reached $50m in size and its first share class is closing to new investment.

Investment trusts have substantially outperformed unit trusts and OEICs over the past decade, according to research.

ENERGY PLAYS FOR 2012

Prusik IM founder Heather Manners has bought into Vietnam for the first time in her funds' history in the view stocks are trading on Asian crisis-level valuations and could double from here.

Liz Evans, Asia-Pacific fund manager at Cavendish Asset Management, gives her views on what the Year of the Dragon has in store for equity investors.

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