Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 27
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How useful are performance measurement tools?
Richard Newell talks to John Fu, Senior Product Manager at J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, about the specific approaches institutional clients are adopting with regards to performance measurement.
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The importance of program trading
The evolution of portfolio construction has moved forward with processes and technologies designed to enhance implementation across global markets. Richard Surrency explains importance of program trading.
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Institutional investors and Sharia
by Bee Ong - Sharia investment professionals think that non-Muslims will find sharia investments attractive from the risk perspective.
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Partners are the key to success
One key issue for any fund manager that has aspirations to be a global player, is the potential to enter the domestic fund management market in China. Joseph Mariathasan reports.
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Special Report
A venture for Asia exposure
A joint venture between Marshall Wace and GaveKal brings together top-flight long/short capabilities with seasoned Asia research. Martin Steward finds that 2008 gave it a baptism of fire
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Corporatising Asia
It’s no news that Asia offers long-term growth. But the value locked up in its disparate corporate structures means private equity could represent the keenest form of Asian risk, writes Joseph Mariathasan
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Time to build the new world
The growth of Asia is undoubtedly one of the great investment stories of the coming generation, and infrastructure is one of the key areas of exposure for European investors. But Martin Steward finds that the opportunity might be surprisingly short-lived
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Access ETFs likely to feature in 2010
Activity in the exchange traded funds market looks set increase even further this year, as the major promoters boost their product range in Asia. Although the market is still developing, with the level of marketing activity, ETFs have quickly become an integral part of the Asia-Pacific region’s financial landscape. The ...
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New indices help investors adopt passive ESG policy
As SRI indices proliferate, there is an increasing need for comparative data on the indices themselves.
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Asia’s pensions among the best and the worst
Australia and Hong Kong rank highest because the overall structures of their old age provisioning systems are quite balanced, despite setbacks to their funded systems as a result of the financial crisis.
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The plumbing for the NPS – the Unique ID Authority
One of the most difficult aspects of establishing a pension scheme for hundreds of millions of the poorest segments of India’s society, is identifying who they are absolutely accurately over a period of a lifetime. Many of the potential participants in the NPS are illiterate, and there may even be ...
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Beyond Domestic Bias
For many years pension funds across Asia were content to focus mainly on domestic markets - with high allocations to domestic bonds and equity. This home bias proved costly for many asset owners who missed out on a global uptick in equities, especially in emerging markets. Many Japanese pension funds, ...
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New opportunities in emerging corporate bonds
Emerging market corporate bonds staged an impressive performance in 2009. T. Rowe Price has just produced a paper outlining the opportunity for institutions to diversify their bond alpha. As an asset class, emerging market corporate bonds are taking a more prominent role in fixed income portfolios, particularly as emerging market ...
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Is this China’s bubble period?
PIMCO Japan’s Koyo Ozeki has produced an interesting study of China’s real estate boom in comparison with the major asset bubble that brought Japan to its knees in the late 1980s.
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Building India’s pension future - introduction
In this special report, IPA’s India correspondent Joseph Mariathasan explains the issues and talks to those involved in mapping out India’s pension future.
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China heading for disaster on the RMB
Beijing’s determination to avoid a dramatic RMB appreciation reinforces a monetary and FX dis-equilibrium that perpetuates large and unsustainable external imbalances that are without precedent.
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Civil service pension reform
A major element of India’s future pension strategy is the adoption by central and state governments of the NPS framework as the basis for future public sector pensions. The Indian central government introduced the New Pension System (NPS) with effect from January 1, 2004. Under the new pension system, the ...
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Strategies and incentives for expanding voluntary pension coverage
Recommendation of the OASIS report The financial needs of an individual across their lifetimes are inevitably complex, whatever their wealth. Poor people lead lives with unpredictable cashflows, requiring risk management and the solution of complex financial problems. “As a result, consumers need sophisticated financial products”, says Ajay Shah, a Senior ...
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A global view of the financial crisis
Pension fund heads from around the world comment on the lessons they have learnt from the GFC.
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Lesson of the crisis for the Social Security Fund
Dai Xianglong, chairman of China’s National Council for Social Security Fund (NSSF) was a keynote speaker at the Pacific Pension Institute’s 2009 Asian Pension Fund Roundtable in Bangkok. Chairman Dai says the assets of the NSSF are expected to exceed 1 trillion RMB (approx. $150bn) within two years. He believes ...
