Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 31
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Hedge fund liquidity under review
Investors keen to redeem their assets ought to read the small print. Hedge fund managers tend to be afforded more flexibility.
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Still work to do in India
Joseph Mariathasan talks to Gautam Bhardwaj, one of the architects of India’s pension reform.
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Reassurance a key ingredient in investor servicing
J.P. Morgan’s Worldwide Securities chief executive gives an insight into the keys to success in the new environment
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Korea well-placed for recovery
Recession is looming for Korea, but Kyueun Jeong suggests that once the global gloom lifts, the country will be one of the first to rebound.
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Leverage is no panacea
The assumption that, given enough innovation, uncertainty can be reduced to risk is just wrong
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Recession under the microscope
Future business school students will study the anatomy of the financial meltdown and the various aspects of how venerable institutions failed to protect themselves from over-exposure to risky investments.
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Why Obama needs to show the Right Stuff
Kevin says lessons need to be learnt from Japan if confidence is to be restored in the US.
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To regulate or not to regulate?
Paul argues that the problems stem not from hedge fund managers themselves, but from the banks, and that the industry representatives are misguided in engaging with the regulators.
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Japan bids to improve company responsibility
Japanese public companies are facing a changed market environment. There are opportunities for those who adapt rather than build defences.
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Pension fund boards need to speak up
The need for greater oversight of company boards begs the question of whether major pension funds and sovereign funds ought to be less passive and exert more influence over the composition of boards and how they are compensated.
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The aftermath of India's 9/11
Asian investing expert Ian McEvatt writes of how Indian professionals are determined not to be knocked off their stride by the recent acts of terrorism in Mumbai.
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Emerging Markets: A 20-year Perspective
Remy Briand and Madhusudan Subramanian of MSCI provide this historical perspective on how far the emerging markets have come in 20 years
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Wider acceptance of ESG principles in Australia
An assessment of responsible investment policy endorsement by superannuation funds.
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REITs - developments across the Asian region
REITs are a worry for India and China because of concerns about a flood of capital. Elsewhere, progress is patchy, as Asia Public Real Estate Association CEO Peter Mitchell explains.
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Index providers respond to demand across Asia
Standard & Poor’s are working on a number of new index products focusing on Asia. Alka Banerjee, New York-based vice president of product development for S&P’s global indices business, says they are in the process of developing some tactical opportunity indices, including an extension of their dividend opportunity range. In ...
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Market meltdown a good advert for sustainable investing
As the implications of the financial markets crisis dawns on investors, the search for new growth investment opportunities begins
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Hong Kong aims to be the pensions centre of Asia
One of the embryonic ideas that lends itself to Hong Kong’s strengths is for the SAR to become a “pension hub” for Asia. The initial idea borrows substantially from the “Pan-European” pension plans being set up in the Old Continent and asks whether something similar could work in Asia.
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Funds consider the idea of currency alpha
The fundamental question as to whether or not to hedge has been the subject of ample empirical research with some degree of consensus that non-base currency exposure in the long term does not come with a positive expected return, whilst it does entail incremental risk.
