Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 20
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Kyushu Electric revamps its portfolio
The Japanese pension fund has restructured its ¥300bn basic portfolio, with a shift from stocks to super-long bonds and a strengthening of its hedging positions.
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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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The long view on climate investments
Investments in new energy-efficient technologies and business practices that help reduce the effects of climate change have not been significantly undermined by the global economic crisis, says the Asian head of the IFC.
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New venture targets China's FI funds market
Shanghai-based Anzhong has launched the AZ Multi Asset-Renminbi Opportunities Fund, the first UCITS III fund in Hong Kong. IPA’s Iain Mills caught up with Anzhong’s CEO Gerard de Benedetto in Shanghai, to find out more.
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Climate Change: Collaborative Effort Needed
Multiple stresses in Asia will be compounded further due to climate change. It is likely that climate change will impinge on sustainable development of most developing countries of Asia.
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Plans for Broader, Deeper Insurance Market
Individual components of the 12th Five-year plan are steadily emerging, the latest of which relates to the insurance industry. Iain Mills reports
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Can PE deliver for Asian funds?
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 alternatives including private equity. Bee Ong assesses how they might achieve this.
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Asia is stuck with the Dollar
Asian banking chiefs were among the strongest critics of Washington’s poor handling of the recent debt ceiling negotiations. Richard Jerram, Chief Economist with the Bank of Singapore told IPA’s Iain Mills, “Washington has not particularly lost credibility in Asia, so much as everywhere.”
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The contrarian approach works
Pension Fund client seminars are an essential activity for asset management companies operating in Japan. They allow firms to introduce investment solution ideas to an audience eager to study best practice and obtain guidance on their investment strategy.
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Alpha in Asian long short funds
Looking back over the years from 2007 to 2010 is a good “stress test” to see how Asian long short hedge funds managed during the last year of the bull market, the correction and subsequent recovery. Albourne’s Richard Johnston reports
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Quant: It’s all in the numbers
Anthony Harrington asks what went wrong for quants during the crisis, but also questions the received wisdom that ‘all quants are the same’
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Aldcroft: dialogue with regulators is important
Cameron Dueck interviews one of the Asian investment industry’s most experienced marketeers, as he embarks on a new adventure.
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Korea - healthy growth in retirement schemes
As part of a wide-ranging study of the Korean pension market, Towers Watson assesses the development of asset management products that are officially registered as suitable for retirement pension funds.
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Japan's tsunami and its impact on hedge funds
Richard Johnston assesses how fund managers were able to respond to the market effects of Japan’s recent disaster situation.
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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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Going down to the crossover
The hinterland between investment grade and high yield delivers an intriguing risk profile. But Martin Steward also finds that profile changing
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Chinese still risk-averse in international markets
The barriers Chinese firms face in developed economies often means they cannot easily invest in their first-choice asset classes and have to be more opportunistic in their approach.
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China - a range of new measures
Iain Mills reports from Beijing on the new decrees from Chinese regulators on enterprise annuity, master trusts and variable annuities.
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RCM fund managers re-assess China
Mark Konyn, CEO of RCM Asia Pacific, talks to IPA’s Barbara Ottawa at the Asia conference that Allianz Global Investors holds in Berlin every year.
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Questioning investors’ capability to manage OTC risk
Institutional investors’ use of over-the-counter derivatives is running ahead of their ability to manage counterparty risks, reports Bee Ong.
