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Ms Ooi Lay Leng is a senior portfolio manager at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), managing global fixed-income portfolios including global emerging market fixed-income and currency portfolios. She specializes in policy matters, participates in investment strategies and is responsible for fixed-income investment decisions pertaining to the Asean markets. Lay Leng has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in the fixed-income market. During her career with the fixed-income department, she had worked at GIC's London and New York offices, before returning to the GIC's head office in July 1998 Lim Heong Chye is managing director of DBS Asset Management (DBSAM). He joined DBS Asset Management in 2001 and since his joining, DBSAM's fixed-income funds have been ranked top quartile, and its flagship global fixed-income fund has received a five-star rating from Mercer Investment Consulting. He has been instrumental in enhancing DBSAM's fund management franchise and, in addition to his present responsibilities, is focused on building DBSAM's capabilities in Greater China. He also oversees the institutional marketing and client servicing functions at DBS Asset Management.

A new index should provide greater transparency to investors

State banks are geared to an economy that is mainly state controlled and they dominate much of Iran's financial sector. But the six public banks are starting to fund the private sector, while newly formed, privately owned banks are finding their own niche market through better services and funding. Kate Luxford reports.

China's domestic stock markets are a mess, riddled with inefficient companies, gerrymandered by a meddling government and hamstrung by a vast share overhang. Despite these challenges, Invesco Great Wall Fund Management Company has found a way to make money from stock picking. Much of its success rests on simply understanding the realities of its market. Chris Leahy reports.

Banks readjust after rare correction in asset-backed market Structured credit markets approach the June half-way mark with the spread cycle reversed. All but the most recent new issues are trading below par and the heady times of heavily oversubscribed deals are over for now.

BNP and SG say they are taking a calculated risk, but can the investment pay off?

The largest deal of its kind in Europe will herald an active period in property finance

Lorenz Altenburg is head of syndicate for covered bonds and supranational and sovereign issuers at Société Générale Commercial and Investment Bank since 2000. He was previously head of covered bond trading for SG CIB and before that Lorenz worked for Banque Indosuez/ Credit Agricole Indosuez in Tokyo, New York and Paris as a fixed-income trader. Ziad Awad is co-head of European syndicate at Goldman Sachs. He has been with Goldman's syndicate for the last five years, focusing mostly on covered bonds, sovereign and agency issues. Previously he had been a government bond trader with Goldman Sachs since 1994.

The rumour mill is creating great opportunities for debt vs equity trades

Government-guaranteed issuers have long been a mainstay of the Japanese bond markets. Now the zaito issuers are seen as a market in their own right. Chris Leahy and Andy Wright report.

2004 was an important turning point for IPO activity around the world with an increase for the first time since 2000 in both the number of IPOs and the total capital raised, a survey by Ernst & Young has revealed. There were 1516 flotations globally in 2004 raising $124 billion of capital with every major region showing an increase in activity. The UK was the number one spot internationally in terms of numbers of listings with 191, the highest for any national market, raising $6.8 billion of funds.