Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 34
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Competition grows in Asian ETF space
ETFs make a selling point of their passivity and ability to do without analysts and active managers, so how do they differentiate themselves as producers of value?
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Australia Renews Effort to Become an Asian Hub
Australia has reinvigorated its vision to become a financial service hub in the Asian region. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is taking a hands-on approach to making the vision a reality.
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Turning point for Asian hedge funds
The Asian hedge fund industry has grown tremendously in recent years. Between 2004 and 2007, assets under management doubled. But what is the net result going to be after the year the industry has just experienced?
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Cash products evolve in Asia
The uncertain economic climate globally has resulted in a flight to safety as investors seek to weather the storm in perceived stable investment vehicles.
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Emerging Asia - the best is yet to come
The wall of investible cash looking for suitable investments globally has become so large that financial institutions are considering any and all options to gain market entry into emerging markets.
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Australian funds learning the art of compliance
Russell’s SRI expert asks whether superannuation funds are adhering to the UN’s principles of responsible investment.
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FTSE and APREA launch real estate indices
Index provider FTSE is teaming up with APREA, the Singapore-based industry body that represents listed real estate businesses, to develop new indices for the Asia Pacific real estate sector.
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GIC's measured approach to risk management
As the departmental head of one of Asia’s biggest investing institutions, Dr. Sung Cheng Chih has quite a responsibility.
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Japan - staying calm amid the panic
The Japanese equity market is trading below book value and remains one of the cheapest of the global markets. So should international investors be making a tactical switch in favour of Japan at this stage?
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Fear factor drives Japanese investors to alternatives
With 80% of investors lacking belief in stock markets, pension funds would be wise to consider asset classes with less risk than Japanese equities
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HSBC to offer alternative servicing in Australia
Having acquired Westpac’s sub-custody business in Australia and New Zealand in 2006 there has been considerable speculation about when, not if, HSBC would broaden its service offering to include hedge funds.
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Funds consider the idea of currency alpha
The fundamental question as to whether or not to hedge has been the subject of ample empirical research with some degree of consensus that non-base currency exposure in the long term does not come with a positive expected return, whilst it does entail incremental risk.
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Fundamental Indexing - A Beta Prime and Alpha Tilt Solution
The fundamental index methodology uses company financial fundamentals, instead of market capitalisation, to create index weights.
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Hong Kong aims to be the pensions centre of Asia
One of the embryonic ideas that lends itself to Hong Kong’s strengths is for the SAR to become a “pension hub” for Asia. The initial idea borrows substantially from the “Pan-European” pension plans being set up in the Old Continent and asks whether something similar could work in Asia.
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Market meltdown a good advert for sustainable investing
As the implications of the financial markets crisis dawns on investors, the search for new growth investment opportunities begins
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REITs - developments across the Asian region
REITs are a worry for India and China because of concerns about a flood of capital. Elsewhere, progress is patchy, as Asia Public Real Estate Association CEO Peter Mitchell explains.
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Index providers respond to demand across Asia
Standard & Poor’s are working on a number of new index products focusing on Asia. Alka Banerjee, New York-based vice president of product development for S&P’s global indices business, says they are in the process of developing some tactical opportunity indices, including an extension of their dividend opportunity range. In ...
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Wider acceptance of ESG principles in Australia
An assessment of responsible investment policy endorsement by superannuation funds.
