Japan / Far East

DALTON Strategic Partnership has offered investors a new way to gain exposure to Asia after launching the Melchior Pan Asian Advantage fund.

DALTON Strategic Partnership's Japanese fund manager Robert White is set to leave the company later this year.

THREADNEEDLE Investments has strengthened its Far East and Asian equity range by launching the Threadneedle China Opportunities fund.

GOLDMAN Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has expanded its Flex fund range with the addition of a Japan fund.

F&C has hired former Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) fund manager Stefan Bain as director of Japanese equities.

ALED Smith is to take on the £270m M&G Asian fund, assuming management responsibilities from Hong Kong-based Neil Mackay.

FOREIGN investors now own around a quarter of Japan's equity market compared to just 5pc at the beginning of the 1990s.

FIRST State this week launched its long-awaited Indian Subcontinent fund to be managed by Vijay Tohani, revealing it would only be open to investors during a set offer period.

HENDERSON Global Investors' Far East Income trust manager Michael Watt is retiring in February 2007.

IIMIA'S Nick Greenwood has increased his funds' Japan weighting after a fact-finding trip to the region revealed a thriving market with massive spending.