Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 18
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Asian Special Situations
Albourne’s Richard Johnston explores opportunities in the illiquid credit market space.
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Equity sectors: The best form of defence
If you must hold equities, during volatile times it pays to be invested in the ‘safest’ businesses. But Martin Steward finds a changing world challenging old assumptions about which sectors contain these defensive stocks.
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Shocks, Black Swans and Climate Change
Among the top ten global risks identified by the experts were fiscal crises, wars and global corruption. However, ranked the very highest when likelihood and impact were combined was climate change.
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Securities Services interview with BNP Paribas
IPA recently caught up with Patrick Colle, CEO of BNP Paribas Securities Services and his colleagues Lawrence Au, Head of Asia Pacific, and Jing Zeng, Managing Director (China) to hear their views on how Chinese institutions can move abroad, lessons for Asia from the European experience, and how technology is transforming back-end investment procedures.
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HK mulls further changes to the MPF system
Cameron Dueck looks at the major changes that Hong Kong is considering for its government pension scheme.
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Choppy commodity flows may persist
After a jittery 2011, the commodities markets look set to continue their bumpy ride this year with slowing growth in China and a second recession looming in the euro zone. But for gold, this remains a good year. Orlando Bowie reports.
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Credit rating - costly mistakes and their consequences
Astute investors then ask the big question: How much accountability do such agencies accept for their deliberations?
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Harvest sees growth in frontier market consumption
Tan says. “We have a total of 300 million new consumers, you can feel the heartbeat of consumption.”
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SWFs will continue to dominate
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 markets and the rapidly growing emerging markets, many of which are here in Asia.
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Managing the ethical risks of investing in emerging economies
Emerging markets can be a sustainable source of wealth or a significant risk to your entire business, writes Paul Wenman of InvestAssure.
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Super funds seek extension for MySuper
The A$1.3trn ($1.4trn) Australian pension industry is lobbying the federal government to extend key components of the timetable for the industry-wide implementation of MySuper. Brendan Swift examines the issues.
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The family office fund manager selection process
Richard Wilson, in his work with family offices and the dozens interviews conducted, has constructed the process family offices employ in selecting fund managers.
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Taiwan's pension funds pursue passive-aggressive strategies
Orlando Bowie looks at pending reforms in Taiwan’s pension system and their evolving asset management approach
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How words can lose their meaning
Many Japanese pension funds are appreciating that a large part of their solvency risk lies with them having an investment portfolio that deviates from the portfolio of GPIF.
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Asian hedge funds in 2011 – Review and outlook
In 2011, hedge funds won the contest of “least ugly” versus bonds and equities, and they have disappointed a little throughout the year. Albourne Asia’s managing director Richard Johnston looks at opportunities in the industry in the new year.
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Problems in store for Indian banks in 2012
Softness in Indian bank bonds is slowly shifting from a story of oversupply to more fundamental concerns.
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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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China proceeds cautiously on variable annuities
As China continues to expand its variable annuities (VA) pilot scheme, international debates over the desirability of VA products carry on. Iain Mills examines the issues.
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Family offices on the rise in Asia
Accumulating wealth in Asia is driving the growing interest in family offices. Wing-Gar Cheng talks to those involved in this important investor segment.
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Is Asian corporate governance fatally flawed?
Tepco, Japan’s largest utility, which is receiving a bailout after poor board oversight and risk management contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been filing falsified reports to nuclear safety regulators since the 1980s
