Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 28
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Risk and Reward — A Family Office Experience
Stuart Lucas’ family portfolio has been increasingly weighted towards Asian alternative assets over the last 11 years. Now, as the region gains relative vigour, the portfolio’s Asian component may be further augmented.
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Whatever happens, this is a new era for Japan
From inside and outside Japan, everyone is wondering whether the Hatoyama revolution will truly herald a new era for Japan, or if this will be just the latest in a string of false dawns.
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Eight Principles For Sustaining Wealth
Stuart Lucas has distilled more than 25 years of managing his family’s wealth, his personal funds and clients’ money into the Eight Principles of Strategic Wealth Management, which underlie his investment decision-making: 1. Take charge and do it early. 2. Align family ...
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The Sweet Spot - in its final days
The subsequent three months will be quite bumpy, as central banks attempt to clarify how they will time and sequence their exit strategies. In this spirit, Treasury Secretary Geithner recently cautioned that the recovery will have “more than the usual ups and downs”
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The more things change the more they stay the same
The most positive development is undoubtedly the rise of the Asian-based hedge fund investor.
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A challenging time for real estate investors.
A major component of institutional portfolios, real estate has gone from being the boom asset class of recent years to being the cause of much of the distress investors now find themselves in. What does the future hold for real estate investors in Asia?
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China catches up with the global index trend
Technical challenges have hampered ETF development in China. Limitations in existing settlement systems also impede the development of ETFs that invest in stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.
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How to build financial security
There is currently no known pension infrastructure that adequately addresses all of the key demographic issues. Bee Ong talks to Russell’s Bruce Pflaum about Asia’s future
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Are we blind to risk in the financial sector?
A key challenge in analysing financial institutions is their complexity, and, in hindsight, it has become clear that many bankers and internal auditors did not always understand the risks of their own products or their financial exposures.
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ASFA backs after-tax benchmark series
The move of ASFA into the index business with FTSE represents a significant strategic step for the not-for-profit industry association.
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Darwinism meets Asset Servicing
Richard Newell looks at the dynamic shifts that have taken place in the Sibos world since last year’s event, which coincided with the collapse of Lehman Brothers
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Hugh Young - 'Responsible' Investing Requires Sleuthing
Aberdeen’s investment managers work more like corporate sleuths. They visit every potential investee, chat with senior management to get a feel of the ground that cannot be discerned from reports, watch management’s actions over six to seven years and fine-comb the annual reports before making a decision.
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Sustainability by stealth
In the view of this fund manager, clients choose a manager not for its responsible investment capabilities, but because it generates excess return. Clients are skeptical of RI anyway, so there’s no point trying to sell it that way.
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Rebuilding Trust
While we may be over the worst of the immediate effects of the financial crisis, as Bob Dylan wrote, “things have changed”.
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Investment issues for new pension system
India is finally putting into place a radical new pension system aimed at providing near universal coverage. The New Pension System (NPS) proposed in the OASIS (Old Age Social and Income Security) report (2000) represents an important break with traditional ideas about the organisation of pensions systems in India. Its growth and development is set to have a profound impact on India’s capital markets as well as providing security in old age to a population seeing unprecedented changes in social structures as economic growth takes off. As G. Pradeepkumar Chief Marketing Officer of IDFC Investment Advisors argues: “The absence of institutional players such as pension funds has been a major problem with Indian equity markets. The new pension system will, hopefully, fill that gap some day.”
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Doing more with less – the new ideal
The annual TBLI (triple bottom line investing) Asia conference provided an interesting discussion in Yokohama, Japan, involving investors at the forefront of responsible investment. This report is the introduction to an extended section on the theme that appears in the Q3 2009 edition of IPA.
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Growing pains of Taiwan's second pillar
The Labor Pension Fund (LPF) celebrated its fourth birthday in July, Carl Redondo assesses new messages designed to address some of its shortcomings.
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Stimulus windfall for green investment
Massive global stimulus is driving the development of environmental investments
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Labor Pension Fund's outsourcing plan
The LPF currently uses third party fund managers for around 15% of its overseas investments within the new portfolio, and 5% from the old system. Xav Feng, Head of Research in China and Taiwan for Lipper says, “This year, the LPF plans to invest $2 billion in overseas markets, up ...
