West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) - Finvest Asset Management is set to launch a new capital protected offering for investors who are seeking to generate annual returns of between 12-20 percent in a low risk structure.
The total offering is for $500 million and is open to non-U.S. investors only. The capital protected product will be offered […]

BBC - It may be a case of shutting the stable door after the thundering herd has bolted, but law and order is being brought to the wild wild west of global financial markets.
G Brown will, for example, in the coming days put on his Wyatt Earp costume, and will ask the financial gunslingers to […]

Bloomberg.com: UK & Ireland - “I’ve never lived through something like that,” Stephen Jarislowsky, the 83-year-old chairman and founder of Montreal-based money manager Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., said yesterday about the past month on Wall Street.
“I don’t even think the ’30s were like that,” he said in a telephone interview. “At least they had a bank […]

Reuters UK- A near one year-old credit crunch still has plenty of venom and will sting global financial markets and the economy well into next year or even into 2010, a Reuters poll found.
On the eve of its one-year anniversary at the start of August the credit crisis is still spitting out victims and darkening […]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Bank of Communications Schroders Fund Management Co is aiming to raise up to 1 billion yuan for its first overseas fund later this month, despite sliding global financial markets, two company sources said.
Poor market conditions have sapped interest in funds launched recently under China’s Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor QDII.L scheme, which offers […]