All IP Asia articles – Page 15
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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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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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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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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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Solid growth for ETFs in Asia
by Richard Newell - However, a lack of mutual recognition in Asia is holding back the development of ETF funds domiciled in the region.
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Options for long-term saving
The Shift to DC, a white paper recently produced by State Street contains some useful information on the creative new approaches being adopted for people’s post-retirement income phase.
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The long term view grows shorter
As institutions continually question their approach, fund managers have had to adapt to a client base that rejects the traditional assumptions. Bee Ong talks to Russell CEO Andrew Doman about meeting this challenge.
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India gives NPS members some incentive
The Government of India has recently announced it will add a 1000 Rupees (c. $25) co-contribution every year for the next three years for everyone who joins the New Pension Scheme.
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Giant insurers take a step towards public life
Few casual observers would have thought that this year the biggest IPO globally would occur in Japan. Fewer still that it would be an insurance company making its debut on the stock exchange.
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Japan - Uptrend in funds returned to Government
The final tally for daiko henjo (return to the government of welfare pension portion of EPF schemes) in fiscal 2009 has been announced by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
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Seamless segregation for prime finance
Citi’s Prime Finance arm has evolved a new product to ensure better protection of assets for hedge fund strategies. It is a technology platform that combines all the elements of prime finance, administration and custody. The Danish pension fund ATP has been one of the early adopters of the service.
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System diversification and portfolio risk
In the minds of many in Japan, there is one question that remains unanswered: what are the true strengths of defined contribution pensions? Akiko Nomura provides his perspective on the issue.
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Currency as an independent return source
Neil Record has built a company managing $34bn of currencies. He and his team have recently been touring Asia to explain the ‘forward rate bias’ of high interest rate currencies. Here he describes how that can be incorporated into an institutional portfolio.
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Error margins and their consequences
Portfolio construction is often seen as a science, but there is a critical aspect of the experimental scientific methodology that is usually neglected. And yet it has profound implications for portfolio construction itself.
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More Japanese corporations close their DC pension schemes
Companies are abandoning the system due to a deteriorating business environment, and terminations have remained on the increase.
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Special opportunities in China
The property market in China is going through something of a consolidation phase, after an extended bull run that he was led many to question whether it could undermine economic stability. Richard Newell finds out where the opportunities might lie.
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Water - China’s greatest challenge
Of the many factors that could block China’s development path, water scarcity, is also one of the most challenging. China’s impending water catastrophe is beginning to unnerve investors.
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Pension managers on the brink of a new era
Corporate pension funds in Japan have posted their first positive performance in three years.
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Issues in bond index construction
Constructing indices for bond markets is not at all as straightforward as it is for equities. Joseph Mariathasan explains the problems of trying to satisfy all the different parties.
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Sustainability versus stimulus – which way for China’s banks ?
In the wake of the Asian financial crisis in 1998, a discussion of sustainability in the context of Chinese banks would most likely have referred to a given institution’s likelihood of survival.
