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Taipei, Aug. 19 (CNA) A former senior official in the Ministry of Labor has been sentenced to nine years in jail for his role in a labor fund scandal in which he manipulated the share price of select stock to allow PJ Asset Management Co. to make more than NT$500 million (US$16.67 million) in profit, the Taipei District Court said Friday.
FSC fines three firms NT$4.5 million each for alleged stock manipulation
By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter
The Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) yesterday fined three asset management firms NT$4.5 million (US$159,909) each for last year buying shares in a company at the direction of a Ministry of Labor official while conducting discretionary trading for the nation’s labor funds.
Fuh Hwa Securities Investment Trust Co (復華投信), Capital Investment Trust Corp (群益投信) and Uni-President Assets Management Corp (統一投信) accepted requests from Yu Nai-wen (游迺文), former head of the Domestic Investment Division of the Bureau of Labor Funds, to purchase Far Eastern Department Store Ltd (遠東百貨) shares, the commission said.
JAPAN
Dai-ichi Life Insurance decided to make an impact investment of ¥100 million ($960,540) in Metcela, a Japanese startup engaging in the development of regenerative medicines for patients with chronic heart failure.
This investment is part of the company’s ESG investment programme. According to its latest annual report, the insurer aims, by 2023, to double its total ESG investments from ¥1.37 trillion ($13.16 billion) in 2019. Dai-ichi Life had ¥36.8 trillion in total assets as of September 2020.
KOREA
The National Pension Service committed a total of $450 million to two North America-focused funds launched by Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and Macquarie Infrastructure Partners.
New York-based Stonepeak got $250 million from the South Korean state pension scheme last year, while Australia-based Macquarie received $200 million.