Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 24
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Working age population peaked in 2010
Ten or fifteen years ago, global aging barely registered as a policy issue. But as a new study shows, China and the rest of Asia faces some tough decisions and policy challenges as they seek to avert widespread social instability. Richard Newell reports
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ESG - Indifference and the impact of mega-trends
Where is the practice of environmental, social and governance investing headed? In Asia, sadly, the concept has not really taken hold in the way it has in other parts of the world. Bee Ong reports
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Politics weigh heavy on GPIF diversification plan
Perhaps developments in financial markets have played a role in bringing GPIF to step up at least its research effort into non-listed equity and infrastructure, as possible alternative investment categories.
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Industry Debates Future, Growth Remains Strong
Australia prides itself in having a self-contained and sophisticated financial services market. Betty Kotevski talks to superannuation industry heads to assess how market will evolve from here.
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GIC sees challenges for the region
Shifting economic power could lead to conflicts among nations. Asia will increasingly face labour, natural resource, and commodity constraints to its high growth strategy.
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Uncertainty Creates a Buying Opportunity
In the last decade Japan has outperformed US and other major world markets in dollar terms
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The super fund stripped bare
Jeremy Cooper’s recommendations to force fund managers to reveal tax consequences will expose a new competitive divide in the industry, says Peter Hill
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Australia has most hedge fund potential
IPA’s regular hedge funds industry analyst Richard Johnston says Asia is a diverse region in terms of hedge fund investment. In the short term, he sees Australia as a key market for increased adoption of hedge strategies.
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Should EMD be regarded as a separate asset class?
The financial crash has marked a paradigm shift in the perceptions of the relative risks of emerging market investments, whether equity or debt. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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Asian private equity markets have shown their resilience
According to Bain & Co, one-fifth of the global private equity dry powder will be allocated to the Asia-Pacific region in 2010-2012. In this report, the Swiss alternative investment consultancy SCM Strategic Capital Management has analysed private equity activity, with a particular focus on China and India.
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Meaningful change in Asian private equity investment
Entrepreneurship has begun to take solid roots in important economies like India and China and venture capital managers have taken note.
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Funds Focus on Costs and Alternatives
Concerns have been raised about the impact on innovation, and potentially even the impact on the macro economy should a large portion of the market move to passive management.
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Japan - An abundance of stock and plenty of value
The existence of a vast number of investible stocks in the small and mic-cap space is one of the key aspects for investors looking for opportunity in Japanese equities
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Still nervous about the hand-off
Investors might consider taking only a modest amount of long equity beta, saving their focus and risk-budget for pair-trades.
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Re-thinking Investment Decision-Making part 2
Seeking Alpha To recap, a massive fund, typically a pension fund or a SWF, faces constraints and challenges in the marketplace in terms of market capacity, availability and liquidity. In order to capitalise on its available liquidity pools to seek new investments with wealth-added potential, it might be appropriate ...
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Solid growth for ETFs in Asia
by Richard Newell - However, a lack of mutual recognition in Asia is holding back the development of ETF funds domiciled in the region.
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Options for long-term saving
The Shift to DC, a white paper recently produced by State Street contains some useful information on the creative new approaches being adopted for people’s post-retirement income phase.
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The long term view grows shorter
As institutions continually question their approach, fund managers have had to adapt to a client base that rejects the traditional assumptions. Bee Ong talks to Russell CEO Andrew Doman about meeting this challenge.
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India gives NPS members some incentive
The Government of India has recently announced it will add a 1000 Rupees (c. $25) co-contribution every year for the next three years for everyone who joins the New Pension Scheme.
