All IP Asia articles – Page 14
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Central banks should take more risk with reserves
State Street Global Advisors’ Hon Cheung thinks central banks are too conservative when they diversify assets, and need to look beyond dollars, yen and euros.
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Peter Drucker on sensible investment beliefs
The Unseen Revolution’ was decades ahead of its time in predicting that the massive wave of retirement savings would offer an opportunity to make capitalism work for workers.
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Biodiversity and diversification for Kehati
Indonesia’s green endowment Kehati has gone from passive investing to active and back to passive.
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The case for emerging market debt
Amundi’s head of emerging markets debt management, Sergei Strigo, talks to IPA about the increasing appeal of fixed-income investment in developing countries
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Coping with low interest rates and high volatility
Bond yields have plummeted as governments and central banks try to fight the effects of the global financial crisis, while volatility has soared. Andrew Wood talks to Société Générale’s cross-asset team about possible solutions for insurers.
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Future Fund favours developed markets in the short term
Betty Kotevski reports on how the Australian fund’s alternative assets and debt holdings have boosted returns
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Plan to moderate structural economic risks
Can the government’s latest five-year plan reduce structural risks in China’s economy and ensure current growth rates are sustained? Iain Mills reports from Beijing.
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Securities lending evolves
Lending shares is no longer such a simple way to boost returns. Bee Ong reports.
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Pressure to outsource in fast-changing market
The increasingly competitive trading market in Asia placing a lot of pressure on brokerage firms to focus on core competencies and outsource other functions. BNP Paribas in Hong Kong surveyed of 150 brokerages to determine their attitudes towards outsourcing.
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Where a foreign partner helps
“We taught India the language of investing” was the Unit Trust of India’s traditional boast. Since T. Rowe Price bought a big stake in UTI, its modern slogan “Let’s plan to get rich” seems more appropriate. Joseph Mariathasan reports.
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Re-thinking Investment Decision-Making part 2
Seeking Alpha To recap, a massive fund, typically a pension fund or a SWF, faces constraints and challenges in the marketplace in terms of market capacity, availability and liquidity. In order to capitalise on its available liquidity pools to seek new investments with wealth-added potential, it might be appropriate ...
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Still nervous about the hand-off
Investors might consider taking only a modest amount of long equity beta, saving their focus and risk-budget for pair-trades.
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Japan - An abundance of stock and plenty of value
The existence of a vast number of investible stocks in the small and mic-cap space is one of the key aspects for investors looking for opportunity in Japanese equities
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Funds Focus on Costs and Alternatives
Concerns have been raised about the impact on innovation, and potentially even the impact on the macro economy should a large portion of the market move to passive management.
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Asian private equity markets have shown their resilience
According to Bain & Co, one-fifth of the global private equity dry powder will be allocated to the Asia-Pacific region in 2010-2012. In this report, the Swiss alternative investment consultancy SCM Strategic Capital Management has analysed private equity activity, with a particular focus on China and India.
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Meaningful change in Asian private equity investment
Entrepreneurship has begun to take solid roots in important economies like India and China and venture capital managers have taken note.
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Should EMD be regarded as a separate asset class?
The financial crash has marked a paradigm shift in the perceptions of the relative risks of emerging market investments, whether equity or debt. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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Australia has most hedge fund potential
IPA’s regular hedge funds industry analyst Richard Johnston says Asia is a diverse region in terms of hedge fund investment. In the short term, he sees Australia as a key market for increased adoption of hedge strategies.
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The super fund stripped bare
Jeremy Cooper’s recommendations to force fund managers to reveal tax consequences will expose a new competitive divide in the industry, says Peter Hill
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Uncertainty Creates a Buying Opportunity
In the last decade Japan has outperformed US and other major world markets in dollar terms
