Investment & Pensions Asia (available to view into digital format here) is a quarterly magazine written for buy-side investors in Asia's investment community - pension funds, endowments, family offices and sovereign funds.

IPA is recognised as a source of high quality information on the pension and investment markets. It provides a forum for institutional readers to be briefed on opportunities occurring within Asian strategic investment and within national pension systems. The attention of global investment professionals is increasingly focused on their Asia regional development. Our core readers are in Asia but the magazine is also read by IPE's readers in Europe and interested parties in the US.

The latest edition, First Quarter 2009, has in-depth coverage of how Asian institutions are responding to the depressed environment in the global economy and markets. We focus on how India is dealing with its ongoing challenge to improve investment flows and meet its crucial infrastructure needs. Our regular coverage of risk management topics assess the need for better governance.

IPA's coverage of the hedge fund sector includes analysis of the effect the market downturn is having on hedge fund managers.

All previous issues of IPA are available here in page turning format, allowing you to see and read the magazine as it appears in print. In our previous issues, you can read about developments in the major markets such as China and India. India's emergence as a major investment destination has been overshadowed by China, but as IPA's extensive report showed, there are real opportunities for foreign investors. Around $5bn of private equity investment flowed into India in 2005, more than double the previous year's figure. Local market regulation is being liberalised, infrastructure is slowly improving and foreign investment groups are now taking India more seriously.

Our studies of developing pension markets have focused on countries such as Korea, Malaysia and Pakistan. IPA takes input from a wide variety of information sources and taps into the expertise of professionals in their respective fields. IPA's Managing Editor, Richard Newell, has been writing about Asia and travelling around the region for the past 15 years. He believes IPA readers benefit from the style and quality of coverage that has characterised IPE in Europe over the last 10 years. Of the new confidence in Asia, he observes: "The ongoing liberalisation of Asian markets, the region's continued and rapid economic expansion and the increasing influence of globalisation, have contributed to a substantial improvement in investment sentiment towards Asia. One of the most exciting aspects of the Asian growth story is the projection being made for many of the region's pension markets in the next 10 years. OECD numbers suggest that between now and 2015, China's pension savings market will grow from $7.6bn to $125bn, India's from $4.5 billion to $150bn, Korea from $29bn to $250bn, while Australia's market is expected to treble in size, from $490bn to over $1.7trn.

The pages of IPA reflect these developments and provide institutional investors with practical guidance on how best to manage their own portfolios as Asian markets expand and mature. You are welcome to look through past issues of IPA using our special page-turning facility on these web pages. If you would like to receive a hard copy of the magazine, send us your details and we will send it to you free of charge.

We welcome feedback.

For all editorial enquiries, contact Richard Newell at richard.newell@ipe.com

If you would like to receive the 2009 IPA Media Pack, please send an email and we will be in touch with you.