Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 35
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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
Wider acceptance of ESG principles in Australia
An assessment of responsible investment policy endorsement by superannuation funds.
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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
Crunch will change the landscape for investors
Richard’s leader article, written in the teeth of the worst period for world markets in 70 years.
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Features
Trusted adviser retains a key role
While the Singapore government has recognised the need to make changes to the Central Provident Fund system, which is as old as Singapore itself, the current situation is felt to be only a partial solution. Carl Redondo reports
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Special Report
UniSuper develops new risk budgeting
Richard Newell talks to David St John, chief investment officer of UniSuper, about hedge fund transparency and the fund's plan for a new SRI option
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Features
An evolving market of smooth transitions
Heather McKenzie talks to providers of transition management services and finds a variety of approaches being adopted
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Features
Hedge funds enter the mainstream - for good or ill
The New Year will see larger hedge funds and private equity businesses voluntarily submit themselves to increasing oversight, Paul Smith expects, with unfortunate consequences for smaller players
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Features
Positioning your super fund for the future
The head of one of Australia’s biggest investors has some advice for super fund managers who struggle to balance the books. Richard Newell listens to his words of wisdom
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Features
EM managers fare well
The Eurekahedge Fund of Funds index registered modest returns (0.5%) for the month of December, bringing its gains for 2007 up to 10.1%. Multi-managers turned in positive returns for the month despite a bit of volatility across asset classes.
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Features
Crowding out enterprise annuity pensions
Victor Wong argues that, with China's basic pension system under increasing pressure, the enterprise annuity programme may be a casualty
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Features
Asian hedge funds - from youth to maturity
After a period working in North America, Paul Smith assesses the challenges of building a substantial asset management business in Asia
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Features
Widening the net in Pakistan
Moiz Mushir Ahmad Khan describes how Pakistan’s Voluntary Pension System has finally come into force
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Features
Hedge funds: the way to play emerging markets
Peter Douglas believes hedge funds offer a route to better returns and effective risk management in developing markets
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Features
Emerging markets - too big to ignore
In a detailed paper, ‘Efficiently adding emerging market equities to a global portfolio’, Northern Trust’s Steven Schoenfeld and Alain Cubeles argue that investors should commit 7-8% of their global equity portfolios to the class. Here is a summary of their views
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Features
Indexing for an inefficient market
Passive indexing has rapidly gained popularity and importance among institutional investors in the rest of the world but to a lesser extent in Asia, with good reason. Jason Hsu and Jason Chia-Shang Tuan explain a new strategy that may alter this
