Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 21
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Best Practices in Currency Execution
Paul Aston describes one practical method of avoiding sub-optimal execution, while also fulfilling fiduciary responsibilities.
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Japanese funds diversify away from equities and bonds
When a pension fund with a large asset base uses multiple funds in an attempt to diversify risk, the task of keeping track of its investments, gauging its income gains and otherwise managing its money is tedious and complicated.
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Equal Weight Indexes Attract Attention
Noriyuki Oharazawa presents some alternative options for benchmarking that are finding favour among Asian money managers
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Discovering Asia’s idiosyncracies
David Walter assesses the key market differences across the region that create opportunity to hedge fund managers.
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LDI in an Asian context
The greater focus on risk that LDI and fiduciary management provide results in a much more stringent framework that enables a control mechanism to preserve value.
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Re-working Asian bond portfolios
One of the most striking examples of the seismic shift in global fixed income markets is the recent announcement by Standard & Poor’s that it has changed the outlook for the AAA rated US treasury bonds, the ultimate risk free asset, from stable to negative.
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Case study: Investing responsibly in Asia
Alexia Wai-Chun Tye describes the governance turnaround of a Chinese portfolio company
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Finding the rationale for private equity in Asia
Asia is seen as the big opportunity for private equity. But despite the huge growth in the number of specialist managers, there are fears that many Asian deals are attracting the ‘dumb money’. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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AMP chief sees positive outlook for Asia fundraising
Anthony Fasso talks to IPA’s Ellen Sheng about the new regulations and directives that are driving large institutional fund flows in Asia
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Super funds bemoan alternative fees
Australian superannuation funds believe many alternative asset managers’ fee structures are “grossly” excessive.
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The new goldrush - how to assess agriculture?
Burgeoning demand in emerging markets is accompanied by considerable supply constraints, with good quality arable land shrinking, fresh water becoming a scarcer resource and climate change events creating risks to the production of field crops.
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China's NSSF takes more active social role
This expansion suggests the fund is ready to move beyond its original mandate as a “strategic reserve” to becoming a more proactive player in domestic social and welfare plans.
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Unsustainable – facing up to the pressures of growth
Following the latest party congress and the announcement of a new five year plan, China consultant Andrew Leung assesses how China can avoid the problems caused by imbalances in the domestic economy.
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NPC outlines Social Security Fund expansion
The fund has an upper limit for overseas assets of 20%, although currently this has remained stable at 7% since last July. The fund has a long-stated aim of fulfilling this quota, but Dai refused to put a time-scale on this expansion.
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New era for multi-asset managers
Martin Steward recently looked at how the dynamics of ageing, pension fund decumulation and tighter capital adequacy had influenced Schroders’ transformation from UK equities investor to global multi-asset manager. In this article he takes another example – PIMCO.
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Engagement – who has the real power ?
It may not be too cynical to suspect that the ability of investors and NGOs to influence those companies which are end–users of rare earths to put pressure on their suppliers – when it is those suppliers that have the bargaining power due to the scarcity of the materials – may be limited.
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Pension tides start to ebb
A modest downturn in equity markets for funds with a shrinking asset base leads to a trap with no other final result but cash-out.
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Cross-border flows set for massive increase
Following the gradual loosening of foreign exchange controls last year, China has begun 2011 with a further series of reforms which are likely to boost the country’s already burgeoning renminbi markets. Iain Mills reports from Beijing
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In search of consistency
BlackRock’s emerging markets strategy is a mix of systematic trading insights and seasoned investment judgement.
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Hey you, get onto my cloud
Martin Steward talks to SRL Global about bringing cloud-computing hedge fund portfolio infrastructure to the pensions community
