Asean, Chinese fund houses seen readying Ucits launches

A growing number of fund houses in Asia are preparing Ucits products with a view to selling them into both their home region and Europe, said Margaret Harwood-Jones, global head of securities services at Standard Chartered. She cited firms in China and Southeast Asia as particularly active on this front. This reflects the growing international popularity and importance of the European Ucits structure, despite talk of it being at threat from moves to develop product passporting sch…