Moreover, foreign fund managers are again complaining about Malaysia's lack of transparency, lack of corporate governance.
Foreign fund managers with good brand names, such as Fidelity and Mercury, are even trying direct marketing.
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In Singapore, for example, a foreign fund cannot even register unless it is managed entirely in that market.
Each has bought foreign fund managers in recent years, acquiring investing skills and marketing expertise in the process.
The bearish foreign fund managers, pundits and analysts make be making a classic mistake of viewing China through their financial models.
And given the amounts of money that foreign fund managers typically handle, only a few companies have tyres big enough to kick.
Although such methods may have had a short-term impact in shoring up the stockmarket, they have put many foreign fund-managers off for good.
The life insurers are trying to change, tying up with foreign fund-managers to learn investment skills, and introducing professional financial planners alongside their insurance ladies.
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Now, three foreign fund providers Jardine Fleming, Merrill Lynch and Fidelity have been admitted, but only after signing exclusive deals with local securities firms through which they must distribute their products.
Indeed, foreign fund managers who were supposed to be buying Malaysian stocks in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the MSCI reinstatement have been big net sellers of Malaysian equities.
Although Centaurus, which is run by former traders from BNP Paribas, the country's largest bank by assets, is reasonably well-regarded, Pardus, a foreign fund known for its abrasive style, is viewed with suspicion.
India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
Meanwhile, interest rates jacked up to defend the Hong Kong dollar sent foreign pension fund managers rushing for the exits.
That could occur, for example, if you have an investment in a foreign hedge fund or private equity fund which would be subject to FATCA but should not require an FBAR.
It would have never occurred to me to ask a foreign government to fund the project.
Even when the relationship is this good, however, foreign banks and fund managers still need to take a leap of faith.
Its boss is Guo Shuqing, who ran China's foreign-exchange fund before taking CCB public in 2005 in the first big bank flotation.
Sri Lanka's risk rating is likely to be downgraded, while foreign investors and fund managers will think harder before investing in the country.
That makes the economy more exposed to external shocks, such as swings in confidence among the foreign investors who fund the bulk of the deficit.
On the international front, Chavez may have a hard time continuing to fund foreign allies such as Nicaragua, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba and runs the risk of alienating these countries which could end his aspirations of a Continental Bolivarian Revolution.
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In any case, foreign entry into the fund-management industry will not resolve the difficulties at hand.
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There is no question that this will significantly increase CNPC's access to financing that would otherwise be unavailable to fund its foreign operations.
Previous efforts to reform the pension fund have been quashed by Japan's Jurassic bureaucracy, as was an earlier attempt to create a sovereign-wealth fund using foreign-exchange reserves.
The big nay, enormous exception to this came last autumn when, in the aftermath of Russia's debt default and the rescue of a large hedge fund, foreign institutions sold heavily.
When investors purchase a foreign stock or stock fund, they are actually placing two bets: one on the stock itself and the other on the currency the stock trades in.
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It is trying to preserve its credibility as a global financial policeman, even while seeming to act, reluctantly, as a foreign-policy slush fund for those who deem Russia too big and too nuclear to be faced with the consequences of its actions.
In addition, a clear indication that the activities of foreign borrowers and equity fund-raisers and those of their senior managers and affiliates and subsidiaries are being scrutinized by U.S. investors, could well catalyze positive change in the behavior of past or prospective offenders.
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