Asia-Pacific: Pensions and Investment News and Analysis – Page 8
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Asian investor seeks sukuk bond manager via IPE Quest
Investor tenders for $20m mandate for Islamic bonds – deadline 10 May
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Emerging markets tipped to boost green bond issuance in 2018
Kenya, Ghana, Morocco and Indonesia are expected to launch sovereign green bonds this year, says IFC
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Benelux fund tenders for €250m Asian equities manager via IPE Quest
Active strategy should include Japanese equities and can be either fundamental or systematic
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Asian investor seeks emerging market debt manager via IPE Quest
Active investment style required and global diversification
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China asset management market ‘to grow sixfold in 10 years’
Shanghai consultancy predicts a $12trn market in 2027 with overseas managers running a quarter of this total
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Asian investor seeks manager for $100m global equity mandate
Asset owner undertakes IPE Quest search for a thematic developed markets manager
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Joseph Mariathasan: Coping with innovation in China and the US
Inspiration from the 2017 Fortunate Global Forum in Guangzhou
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Investor mandates target EM, Asia as US interest slumps: bfinance
ESG seen as increasingly relevant to emerging market equity management
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Joseph Mariathasan: What drives Chinese growth?
The six mega-trends that investors must understand to get to grips with China
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Joseph Mariathasan: Blundering and blustering in Korea
Diplomacy in the Korean peninsular is a much better option than “fire and fury”
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Features
China’s MSCI inclusion widens the assets horizon
The addition of China A-shares to the MSCI Emerging Market index is symbolically important for China and could lead to improvements in regulation and corporate governance
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IPE Expectations Indicator September 2017
Investment managers’ expectations have been welcomingly accurate throughout the year. For example, positive sentiment toward European equities began to rise sharply near the end of 2016, followed by a roughly 20% rise in 2017. Additionally, expectations for dollar strength have been falling since January, and the dollar index (DXY) was down nearly 10% year-to-date through the recent survey period. What are managers’ views as we enter the second half of 2017?
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Asian megafarms’ sustainability risks could ‘derail investor returns’ [updated]
Dutch investor among those backing report into Asian food producers
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UK pension fund seeks diversified credit manager via IPE Quest
Also: Asian pension fund seeking ideas for global commodities allocation via IPE Quest Discovery
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Joseph Mariathasan: The decline of India's infrastructure buyers
Time for a rethink of India’s infrastructure policy to tap foreign institutional money
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Interviews
Strategically speaking: ChinaAMC
Asset management is one of the few areas of business where, so far at least, the Chinese have made little global impact. No Chinese firm was even in the top 100 in the 2016 IPE rankings
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India: Tax net benefits from bold move
Joseph Mariathasan finds India’s recent demonetisation exercise has caused some economic pain but it has also greatly increased the number of taxpayers in the country
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Wednesday people roundup
RPMI Railpen, Standard Life Investments, Candriam, AP3, SEB Markets, GMO, QMA, Cambridge Associates, Aon Hewitt, Xerox, TISA, Robeco, HSBC Securities Services
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Visit by China's pension funds manager 'could signal offshore intentions'
China’s National Committee for Social Security Fund met recently Northern Ireland counterpart
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Western managers set to access Chinese pensions market through JVs
Seven managers positioned to share in management of pension money from Chinese provinces