Asia

UK/JAPAN - Schroders has strengthened its global credit team with three new appointments, bringing the total number to 15.

ASIA - Most commentators believe that Asia is well placed to benefit from a global economic recovery.

ASIA - Govett Investments predicts an improved financial outlook in Asia, following the US rate cut and a rise in Asian equities in October.

JAPAN - Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P Japan 500, a broadly representative index covering approximately 88% of the Japanese equity market, under an alliance with Toyo Keizai.

ASIA/PACIFIC - It is only relatively recently that social security reform has emerged as an important public policy concern in many countries in Asia and the Pacific, according to Professor Mukul Asher of the National University of Singapore in a new...

JAPAN - Schroder Investment Management believes that now is the worst time to give up on Japan.

JAPAN - Japanese equities will not recover their value unless the country carries out structural reform on the economy, Standard Life Investments UK claims.

JAPAN - August belonged to the Japan long/short managers.

UK/INDIA - Prudential is to transfer around 850 jobs from its pensions customer contact centre in Reading to India.

JAPAN - Recovery in the Japanese stock market is dependent on its government taking steps to curb deflation, according to Britannic Asset Management.