Northern Trust Brings Retail Funds Opportunity to Taiwan

Stephen Harris

18 December 2007

Northern Trust Global Investments the investment management arm of Northern Trust, has partnered with Taiwan's First Taisec Capital Management to offer retail investors in Taiwan the opportunity to invest in a range of manager-of-managers funds. First Taisec is a subsidiary of First Financial Holding one of Taiwan's largest financial services companies, and has been appointed as master agent to oversee the registration and distribution of the following five funds, which are part of Northern Trust's Dublin-domiciled, manager-of-managers fund range: The NTMF UK Equity Fund; The NTMF Europe (ex-UK) Equity Fund; The NTMF Global Equity Fund; The NTMF US Equity Fund and The NTMF Japan Equity Fund. The funds will initially be available to investors in Taiwan through two of First Taisec's sister companies, First Commerical Bank and National Investment Trust Company, which currently have a network of over 220 branches across Taiwan.