Taiwan 's mutual fund market has strong growth potential in the Asian region. With the implementation of Taiwan’s new “Regulations Governing Offshore Funds” allowing more business opportunities for onshore and offshore funds, Taiwan will become Asia's important mutual fund market (ex-Japan) by 2010, with assets of US$300 billion.
In recent years, Taiwan has been accelerating its financial reform process, and establishing a more liberalized environment both for domestic and offshore issuers and investors. The Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (“FSC”) in 2005 promulgated new rules governing the offering of overseas funds in Taiwan (Regulations Governing Offshore Funds). This series of regulatory changes, transforming complicated distribution framework into one significantly facilitate international managers wishing to distribute offshore funds in Taiwan and encourages future growth in the industry.
During the "dot-com bubble" covering roughly 1995–2001, the Internet–based companies referred to as dot.coms’ value and growth increases rapidly in new Internet sector and related field including the on-line stock trading. Following the new era of offshore funds in Taiwan and the first Taiwan SICE’s on-line mutual fund trade was placed using Marbo On-Line Mutual Fund Trading technology in 2007, Marbo is a Taiwan’s local financial service leader, delivering value and innovation to its clients with rapidly growing market share.
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