Asset Allocation
Infrastructure - strong demand across the region
27 January 2012
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...
Pension funds urged to maintain long term horizon
27 January 2012
Institutional investors ought to exploit their comparative advantages, and rethink governance and the financial theories they utilise. Wing-Gar Cheng reports.
Emerging allocations: The Tide of History
30 November 2011
by Joseph Mariathasan - A sensible solution could be to allocate a proportion to dedicated large emerging markets strategies and the rest invested in a global strategy focused on the smaller emerging ...
You need three different portfolios
3 January 2011
Sovereign wealth funds should use three different portfolios when constructing their investment strategies: one that seeks performance, another to hedge liabilities and a third to hedge revenues.
Gold - the uninflatable asset
4 November 2010
Gold may be a good hedge against an investment portfolio’s fiat currency exposures. But, Martin Steward asks, does it matter that some investors may be holding it for very different reasons?
New risks in benchmark and static allocation
4 November 2010
What were participants worried about at the Pacific Pension Institute’s Asian 2010 roundtable in Hong Kong, “Managing Risk in the Face of Austerity”? Andrew Wood was there to find out.
Modern Portfolio Theory – captivating the unwary
16 April 2010
What cannot be measured easily is often not managed at all, even if it is much more important.
Don’t try to be too smart
29 January 2010
That is the advice of French research institute EDHEC, as it increases its activity in the Asian region. Lionel Martellini, professor of finance and scientific director of the EDHEC Risk Institute,...
Reassessing your investment approach
5 May 2009
How have Asian asset allocators reacted to the financial markets crisis? Richard Newell assesses the impact the crisis has had on traditional views of asset allocation and what recommendations the...
