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What's New In Investments, Funds? – Lion Global Investors, RQI Investors, Others

Editorial Staff

9 September 2025

Lion Global Investors 
Yesterday, said that it will be listing an actively managed exchange-traded fund that draws on its investment capabilities. The ETF is listed in Singapore. 

The LionGlobal Short Duration Bond Fund, (Active ETDF SGD Class) will be listed on 29 September on the SGX. The “mother fund,” LionGlobal Short Duration Bond Fund (SDBF), has been incepted since 1991.

The fund aims to provide total return of capital growth and income over the medium to long term, through an actively managed portfolio of Singapore and international bonds, high-quality interest rate securities and other related securities. 

There is a target industry or sector, but Lion Global Investors said the fund will generally invest in bonds with investment grade quality and may also invest or expose the fund to sub-investment grade securities. 

The fund marks LGI’s ninth ETF and second active ETF. 

“LionGlobal Short Duration Bond Fund has a track record of strong performance since its inception in 1991, being one of our flagship bond funds,” Teo Joo Wah, CEO, Lion Global Investors, said. “This listed active ETF SGD Class is a notable addition to the LGI family of ETFs as investors continue to seek out cost-effective, income-producing strategies to help diversify their portfolios.”

Citing figures from Bloomberg, LGI said that active ETFs have taken in about 28 per cent of all flows into ETFs in 2025, as of 30 April 2025.

Note: LGI said the LionGlobal Short Duration Bond Fund is not like a typical unit trust offered to the public in Singapore. The fund comprises both classes of units listed as traded on the Singapore Exchange and classes of units which are neither listed on the SGX-ST nor on any other stock exchange.

RQI Investors
, which says it is the first Category III AIF foreign portfolio investor to shift the domicile of its special situations fund from Mauritius to India’s GIFT City, is expanding into Abu Dhabi Global Markets.

The firm is in the process of establishing a presence in ADGM, a jurisdiction in which it sees opportunities to work with the Indian diaspora and capture institutional interest from sovereign and quasi-sovereign funds.

Artha Bharat plans to float feeder funds for non-US investors to channel capital into its strategies, it said in a statement yesterday.  

“The Middle East has one of the largest concentrations of Indian diaspora and has long been one of the key magnets driving inward remittances into India,” Sachin Sawrikar, managing partner, Artha Bharat Investment Managers, said. “We have also seen increased investments into India by sovereign funds such as Mubadala, Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi Investment Authority amongst others. To tap into the growing potential of HNI, family office and SWF across the GCC markets we are in the process of setting up operations in Abu Dhabi Global Markets.”

Having recently moved into a 2,300 sq ft leased office in GIFT City, the business has also opened an office in Dubai, with another of similar size being planned in ADGM. 

The feeder funds for non-US investors will convey capital into strategies, including:

-- Artha Global Opportunities Fund, a foreign distressed debt fund; 
-- Artha Global Multiplier Fund, a long-short hedge fund targeting US markets; and 
-- Artha Bharat Absolute Return Fund, a US dollar-denominated arbitrage fund investing across equities, commodities and interest rate futures.