Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 19

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    Infrastructure - strong demand across the region

    IP Asia January 2012

    Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008, the financial industry has focused on liquidity as the answer to investors’ short term worries. Meanwhile, institutional investors have been looking more seriously at higher yielding and less correlated investments through the private markets. IPA talks to the market players about this trend

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    Problems in store for Indian banks in 2012

    IP Asia January 2012

    Softness in Indian bank bonds is slowly shifting from a story of oversupply to more fundamental concerns.

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    Asian hedge funds in 2011 – Review and outlook

    IP Asia January 2012

    In 2011, hedge funds won the contest of “least ugly” versus bonds and equities, and they have disappointed a little throughout the year. Albourne Asia’s managing director Richard Johnston looks at opportunities in the industry in the new year.

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    Japan's PFA cuts managers as reserves decline

    IP Asia November 2011

    The Pension Fund Association (PFA) has cut five foreign managers and is increasing its ratio of funds managed in-house, while remaining committed to expanding its external managers.

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    CIC restructures for overseas push

    IP Asia November 2011

    Iain Mills looks at China’s sovereign wealth funds as China Investment Corp undergoes a major restructuring and continues its gradual expansion into active management strategies.

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    Chinese trust companies – coming in from the shadow

    IP Asia November 2011

    China is making a distinct attempt to legitimise and professionalise the trust sector, whose growing asset management function presents new opportunities for foreign and Chinese investors alike, Iain Mills reports.

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    Bringing the New World to the Old

    IP Asia November 2011

    by Martin Steward - Investec are the only firm that has successfully migrated from the Southern Hemisphere to build a competitive global position in institutional active asset management without a string of acquisitions - according to CEO Hendrik Du Toit

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    How smart is your beta ?

    IP Asia November 2011

    As Japanese investors continue to assess what conclusions to draw from the financial crisis, the concept of “smart beta” is drawing attention from an increasing number of pension funds.

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    AustralianSuper: treading the unlisted path to diversification

    IP Asia November 2011

    Brendan Swift looks at the transfer of the range of product and services of Westscheme, which provides superannuation for people living and working in Western Australia, into AustralianSuper.

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    Asian sovereign funds – what drives them?

    IP Asia November 2011

    Joseph Mariathasan looks at the giants of the investment world and how an understanding of what drives their investment decisions is of interest to fund managers, governments and the wider public.

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    Asian debt coming into focus

    IP Asia November 2011

    Investors should consider Asia first when structuring their bond portfolio and get rid of the notion of emerging market debt being junk, according to Aberdeen Asset Management. Barbara Ottawa reports

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    Emerging allocations: The Tide of History

    IP Asia November 2011

    by Joseph Mariathasan - A sensible solution could be to allocate a proportion to dedicated large emerging markets strategies and the rest invested in a global strategy focused on the smaller emerging and frontier countries.

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    How the Euro crisis affects investments

    IP Asia November 2011

    by Lynn Strongin Dodds - Prime office space is the only property sector expected to show capital growth in 2012.

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    Japan's DC system after 10 years

    IP Asia November 2011

    A survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare finds subscribers to corporate defined contribution (DC) pension funds climbed to 4 million as of July 31, accounting for one out of every eight salaried workers.

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    Widening the scope for Islamic investment

    IP Asia September 2011

    Institutional asset owners customarily receive a surfeit of investment ideas and proposals, but Islamic institutions experience quite the opposite—a dearth of suitable assets. Bee Ong reports on the available investment options and where demand is coming from.

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    Paying heed to inflation risk

    IP Asia September 2011

    Stephanie Schwartz talks to New York-based fund manager Jenny Yiu about her pure play portfolio focused on inflation-linked bonds.

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    A playground for event–driven managers

    IP Asia September 2011

    Martin Steward finds an unusual corporate event cycle teeing up opportunities for event-driven hedge funds – but not necessarily classic merger arbitrage or distressed debt

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    Kyushu Electric revamps its portfolio

    IP Asia September 2011

    The Japanese pension fund has restructured its ¥300bn basic portfolio, with a shift from stocks to super-long bonds and a strengthening of its hedging positions.

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    Investors drive the expansion of securities servicing

    IP Asia September 2011

    There is a wave of change sweeping across the global custody market, according to two of Asia’s top practitioners.

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    The long view on climate investments

    IP Asia September 2011

    Investments in new energy-efficient technologies and business practices that help reduce the effects of climate change have not been significantly undermined by the global economic crisis, says the Asian head of the IFC.