Sovereign Wealth Funds
SWFs will continue to dominate
19 March 2012
Curt Custard, head of global investment solutions at UBS Global Asset Management took time out of his Asian business trip to speak to IPA about the differences he sees between western developed...
Chinese SWFs play key role in outbound investment drive
27 January 2012
Iain Mills explores the key role that Chinese sovereign wealth funds play in the country's outbound investment drive.
Asian sovereign funds – what drives them?
19 November 2011
Joseph Mariathasan looks at the giants of the investment world and how an understanding of what drives their investment decisions is of interest to fund managers, governments and the wider public.
CIC restructures for overseas push
19 November 2011
Iain Mills looks at China’s sovereign wealth funds as China Investment Corp undergoes a major restructuring and continues its gradual expansion into active management strategies.
Can PE deliver for Asian funds?
19 September 2011
Major institutional asset owners, including Asia’s large public pensions such as Korea’s National Pension Service and China’s National Social Security Fund, intend to augment their exposure to...
Expanding beyond the resource rush
8 May 2011
In the cities of Central Asia, a new kind of foreign visitor is beginning to emerge: Sovereign wealth fund officials. Bee Ong assesses what attracts them to places such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan and...
NPC outlines Social Security Fund expansion
5 March 2011
The fund has an upper limit for overseas assets of 20%, although currently this has remained stable at 7% since last July. The fund has a long-stated aim of fulfilling this quota, but Dai refused to...
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.
Central banks should take more risk with reserves
4 November 2010
State Street Global Advisors’ Hon Cheung thinks central banks are too conservative when they diversify assets, and need to look beyond dollars, yen and euros.
GIC sees challenges for the region
29 September 2010
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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