Richard Newell
NewsPortfolio management moves beyond Excel
As the governance and disclosure obligations on pension funds increase, there is clear evidence of a diseconomy of scale
FeaturesResearch: Operational challenges for investors
A new study on operational and informational efficiency highlights the challenges for smaller funds
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Markets: Degrees of development
Asian markets range from frontier and emerging to developed economies
Special ReportArtificial intelligence: Smart advantage
Global asset managers are committing more resources to the development of funds using artificial intelligence. How will this affect portfolio management?
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Equities: Mainland China for foreign institutions
Efforts are being made to attract more foreign investment in Chinese stock markets
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Global experts assess Asia’s pension challenge
At the ‘Global Retirement Savings’ Conference, hosted by ICI Global in association with IPA, the problem of pension coverage was a key topic of discussion. Richard Newell reports
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Back office services - resistance is futile
Outsource service providers unanimously describe changes that will entirely alter how the finance and asset management industries plan, process and run their businesses. By Peter Guy
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‘Wealth destroyer’ plans a family office
The financial crisis had been a wake-up call to formalise and to really figure out how we want to run the personal side of things, in wealth management, wealth preservation and transfer
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Introducing the Asian REIT-Index
A new analytical framework for Asian REITs aims to improve corporate governance best practice across the region. Patrick Lecomte explains.
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Infrastructure - strong demand across the region
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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Investors drive the expansion of securities servicing
There is a wave of change sweeping across the global custody market, according to two of Asia’s top practitioners.
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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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Promising future for ETFs in portfolio management
New research into the use of ETFs within the asset allocation process of investment professionals reveals some encouraging trends for the market in Asia.
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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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Pickerell looks to extend Nikko’s multi-local approach
IPA’s Richard Newell talks to Blair Pickerell, Head of Asia for Nikko Asset Management, about continued expansion in the region and the ethos that drives the Japanese group internationally.
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Build the ETF market in China and they will come
Stock exchanges and ETF issuers in China have been encouraged to move ahead with changes that will enhance the ETF market on the mainland. Richard Newell reports from Shanghai.
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Pressure to outsource in fast-changing market
The increasingly competitive trading market in Asia placing a lot of pressure on brokerage firms to focus on core competencies and outsource other functions. BNP Paribas in Hong Kong surveyed of 150 brokerages to determine their attitudes towards outsourcing.
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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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The case for emerging market debt
Amundi’s head of emerging markets debt management, Sergei Strigo, talks to IPA about the increasing appeal of fixed-income investment in developing countries
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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.
