Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 28
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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 ...
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Don’t try to be too smart
That is the advice of French research institute EDHEC, as it increases its activity in the Asian region. Lionel Martellini, professor of finance and scientific director of the EDHEC Risk Institute, explains the group’s attempts to develop an alternative to traditional index benchmarking.
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The IIMPS “Micro-Pension” model
Adopting the NPS for the mass of unregulated workers in the informal sector requires the ability to set up systems that enable small amounts of cash to be remitted at irregular intervals over long periods of time. Much of the NPS framework has been set in place to provide this ...
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Setting up of the New Pension Scheme
Given the drawbacks of the traditional provisions for pensions, India faced pressures for reform, which led a decade ago to two separate developments. The first of these was the OASIS report initiated by the Ministry of Social Justice in July 1998, written by a Committee chaired by Surendra A. Dave, ...
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Where next for the NPS?
The New Pension Scheme framework is a tremendous concept, but turning the concept into a successful solution to the problems of old age poverty in India is a task that requires a level of commitment, organisation and resources that are still yet to be deployed. The experience of the past ...
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ASFA backs after-tax benchmark series
The move of ASFA into the index business with FTSE represents a significant strategic step for the not-for-profit industry association.
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Are we blind to risk in the financial sector?
A key challenge in analysing financial institutions is their complexity, and, in hindsight, it has become clear that many bankers and internal auditors did not always understand the risks of their own products or their financial exposures.
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How to build financial security
There is currently no known pension infrastructure that adequately addresses all of the key demographic issues. Bee Ong talks to Russell’s Bruce Pflaum about Asia’s future
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China catches up with the global index trend
Technical challenges have hampered ETF development in China. Limitations in existing settlement systems also impede the development of ETFs that invest in stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges.
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A challenging time for real estate investors.
A major component of institutional portfolios, real estate has gone from being the boom asset class of recent years to being the cause of much of the distress investors now find themselves in. What does the future hold for real estate investors in Asia?
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The more things change the more they stay the same
The most positive development is undoubtedly the rise of the Asian-based hedge fund investor.
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The Sweet Spot - in its final days
The subsequent three months will be quite bumpy, as central banks attempt to clarify how they will time and sequence their exit strategies. In this spirit, Treasury Secretary Geithner recently cautioned that the recovery will have “more than the usual ups and downs”
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Eight Principles For Sustaining Wealth
Stuart Lucas has distilled more than 25 years of managing his family’s wealth, his personal funds and clients’ money into the Eight Principles of Strategic Wealth Management, which underlie his investment decision-making: 1. Take charge and do it early. 2. Align family ...
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Whatever happens, this is a new era for Japan
From inside and outside Japan, everyone is wondering whether the Hatoyama revolution will truly herald a new era for Japan, or if this will be just the latest in a string of false dawns.
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Risk and Reward — A Family Office Experience
Stuart Lucas’ family portfolio has been increasingly weighted towards Asian alternative assets over the last 11 years. Now, as the region gains relative vigour, the portfolio’s Asian component may be further augmented.
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A much-changed landscape for QDII
The initial success of the QDII program exceeded the most optimistic expectations, with several funds raising more than 200% of their available quotas forcing regulators to increase allocations in an effort to satisfy domestic investor demand. Eighteen months later we find ourselves in a very different economic environment. Fund ...
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Mitigating Risk in Transition Management
Thorny markets and complex portfolios demand sensitive handling of liquidity, market, operational and executional risks during global transitions.
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Darwinism meets Asset Servicing
Richard Newell looks at the dynamic shifts that have taken place in the Sibos world since last year’s event, which coincided with the collapse of Lehman Brothers
