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Your investment compass on the Asian market
Navigating Asia aims to inform asset managers interested in Asian markets about local regulatory and tax frameworks, insights into the business culture, current market developments, and future distribution trends.
NEW 2021 edition

This second edition of Navigating Asia focuses on the reporting and tax obligations when distributing a foreign fund in Asia or tax requirements when investing in local securities. Why? Because reporting is the cornerstone of regulatory transparency requirements, and producing these reports in an optimized way is a key challenge. Furthermore, local regulators in APAC are increasing their transparency requirements, which impacts the complexity and necessary expertise to compile these statistical, tax or registration reports.
Firms are rushing to take advantage of the new regulatory opening (The "11 measures" introduced by Chinese regulators in 2019), but there is no clear formula to success, and building a real presence in China requires heavy investment. In our latest paper Opportunity knocks: How global managers can win in China, we cover the recent regulatory changes and subsequent market entry options for foreign firms.
2018 edition
Investment Funds Distribution : Challenges & Opportunities
Deloitte provide asset managers, wishing to include Asian markets in their growth strategies, with a better understanding of the key national markets and their local characteristics. This publication aims to provide information about local regulatory and tax frameworks, insights into the business culture, highlight current market developments and identify future distribution trends.

This report has been prepared to assist you in the process of evaluating and developing a successful APAC cross-border fund distribution strategy. You will learn about the impact of AIFMD passport on Asian distribution, the Asian fund distribution initiatives, and the evolution of the delegation agreement for portfolio management of Asian securities.
- Overview of distributing European funds in Asia
- Hong Kong market insights
- Australia market insights
- Singapore market insights
- Taiwan market insights
- South Korea market insights
- Japan market insights
- People's Republic of China market insights
- Impact of AIFMD passport on Asian distribution
- Asia fund distribution initiatives
- New delegation arrangements for funds investing in Asia

This first issue includes Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the People's Republic of China and focuses on three main dimensions: distribution possibilities from Europe into Asia and vice versa, various Asian fund passport initiatives and the delegation of Asian securities portfolio management. This publication highlight a number of important factors that can affect the success of an Asian distribution strategy.
*Please note that non-Deloitte Luxembourg Financial Industry Solutions’ client will be charged to receive this report
- Overview of distributing European funds in Asia
- Hong Kong market insights
- Australia market insights
- Singapore market insights
- Taiwan market insights
- South Korea market insights
- Japan market insights
- People's Republic of China market insights
- Impact of AIFMD passport on Asian distribution
- Asia fund distribution initiatives
- New delegation arrangements for funds investing in Asia
To help you visualize the overall regulatory picture for foreign fund distribution in seven APAC countries, we have created a poster, “Navigating Asia – your compass to cross-border fund distribution”. With this poster, you can quickly gain an insight into the regulatory regimes for private placement, public distribution, and tax reporting in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and the People's Republic of China.