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HSBC's Nick Timberlake and Omar Negyal have opened up a net short position in India within the new GIF Global Emerging Markets Equity Alpha fund.

Britain and France are at odds with other European Union countries over plans to insure against future bank failures, in another sign of the problems in trying to forge a common response to the bloc's economic woes.

HSBC Asset Management's Jon Rebak has dropped Schroder Global Property Securities from the Open Global Return and Open Global Distribution funds since taking over less than three weeks ago.

HSBC Asset Management is to launch an ETF offering exposure to the S&P 500 Index.

Hastily introduced banking industry regulation risks precipitating a second credit crunch, HSBC chief executive Michael Geoghegan has warned.

Majedie Asset Management's Adam Parker is standing by a weighting in miners almost double the FTSE All Share despite Australia's proposed supertax on miners' profits hitting the sector.

EUROPEAN EQUITIES

HSBC Asset Management's Middle East and North Africa (Mena) team have increased their exposure to the United Arab Emirate (UAE)'s unloved real estate stocks because of increasing demand for low-cost housing.

ON EMERGING MARKETS

HSBC Asset Management is planning to change the investment approach on its GIF European Equity fund after turning around performance on European Growth using the same method.