Hong Kong

On November 23rd, Incisive Media - publisher of Professional Adviser and IFAonline - breaks new ground by launching its first weekly dedicated to the burgeoning Asian investment market.

Deutsche Bank has launched an ETF providing the daily inverse performance of the Hang Seng index (HSI), a benchmark for the Hong Kong stock market.

Hong Kong's economy has become the latest to announce it is growing again and is no longer a part of the global recession.

The Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has approved the first Hong Kong ETF in Taiwan.

Deutsche Bank has listed its first range of six db x-trackers ETFs on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

Hong Kong is Asia Pacific's leading international financial centre (IFC), attracting 70% of the world's largest banks and supporting a stock market that is the world's 7th largest and 3rd most capitalised in Asia.

Like the rest of the world, the Far East is experiencing some fallout from the global credit crunch.

It has been almost 10 years since Hong Kong reverted to Chinese Rule and the latest research from Fidelity indicates that this has had a negative impact on investment returns.

The international body managing standards of the certified financial planner is looking to implement a future regime based on competency skills.

The FTSE 100 index up by about 22 points to 5,030 this morning on oil, technology and mining company gains.