Jame DiBiasio

Recent Articles by Jame DiBiasio

November 10, 2009

Goldman Sachs: Buy Asian Stocks

Global institutional investors should acquire their own quotas for China's qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) programme to take advantage of an expected ...

October 14, 2009

Hong Kong Hedge Funds Now Manage $55.3 Billion

As of March 2009, Hong Kong hosts 209 active hedge-fund management firms that run a total of 542 funds and $55.3 billion in assets, according to Hong Kong's Securities...

June 14, 2009

BlackRock-BGI Deal Could Reshape Industry in Japan

In Asia Pacific, nowhere are the stakes in BlackRock's $13.5 billion acquisition of Barclays Global Investors bigger than in Japan. BlackRock will be buying a ...

June 8, 2009

Asia's First Cleantech Funds Now Raising Capital

Perhaps the biggest trend in private equity right now is investing in cleantech, a term that refers to products or services that improve operational performance, ...

May 22, 2009

Chinese Economist: Yuan Should Be Regional Currency to Rival Dollar

Yu Qiao, an economics professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, says the best way for China to rescue itself from a dollar trap is to gradually transform the ...

April 29, 2009

Hedge Funds See Asian Credit Opportunity

There is an imminent opportunity for hedge funds in Asia to earn outsized returns in distressed credit over a roughly three-year period, provided investment risks are ...

April 7, 2009

Investors Dive Back into Emerging-Market Funds

Global emerging-market equity funds received inflows of $1.2 billion in the first week of April, according to EPFR Global. With other asset classes such as high-yield ...

January 11, 2009

Hedge Funds Break Jinx in December

Six months: that's how long the global hedge-fund community spent losing money. The downward spiral began in June, when a weighted index of hedge fund performance ...