All IP Asia articles – Page 9

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    Pension funds urged to maintain long term horizon

    IP Asia January 2012

    Institutional investors ought to exploit their comparative advantages, and rethink governance and the financial theories they utilise. Wing-Gar Cheng reports.

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    Global equities: maintain concentration

    IP Asia January 2012

    Perhaps surprisingly, Joseph Mariathasan finds that well-managed active risk has paid off for global equity funds over recent years.

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    Chinese SWFs play key role in outbound investment drive

    IP Asia January 2012

    Iain Mills explores the key role that Chinese sovereign wealth funds play in the country’s outbound investment drive.

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    India’s NPS: Good times and bad

    IP Asia January 2012

    Joseph Mariathasan examines the challenges in the India’s pensions system and the steps taken to achieve its aim.

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    Australia: Pace of consolidation to ease

    IP Asia January 2012

    Brendan Swift examines the future trends in Australia’s A$1.28 trillion ($1.26 trillion) pension industry.

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    Is Asian corporate governance fatally flawed?

    IP Asia January 2012

    Tepco, Japan’s largest utility, which is receiving a bailout after poor board oversight and risk management contributed to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, has been filing falsified reports to nuclear safety regulators since the 1980s

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    Family offices on the rise in Asia

    IP Asia January 2012

    Accumulating wealth in Asia is driving the growing interest in family offices. Wing-Gar Cheng talks to those involved in this important investor segment.

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    China proceeds cautiously on variable annuities

    IP Asia January 2012

    As China continues to expand its variable annuities (VA) pilot scheme, international debates over the desirability of VA products carry on. Iain Mills examines the issues.

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    Infrastructure - strong demand across the region

    IP Asia January 2012

    Since the collapse of Lehman Brothers back in 2008, the financial industry has focused on liquidity as the answer to investors’ short term worries. Meanwhile, institutional investors have been looking more seriously at higher yielding and less correlated investments through the private markets. IPA talks to the market players about this trend

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    Problems in store for Indian banks in 2012

    IP Asia January 2012

    Softness in Indian bank bonds is slowly shifting from a story of oversupply to more fundamental concerns.

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    Asian hedge funds in 2011 – Review and outlook

    IP Asia January 2012

    In 2011, hedge funds won the contest of “least ugly” versus bonds and equities, and they have disappointed a little throughout the year. Albourne Asia’s managing director Richard Johnston looks at opportunities in the industry in the new year.

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    Japan's PFA cuts managers as reserves decline

    IP Asia November 2011

    The Pension Fund Association (PFA) has cut five foreign managers and is increasing its ratio of funds managed in-house, while remaining committed to expanding its external managers.

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    CIC restructures for overseas push

    IP Asia November 2011

    Iain Mills looks at China’s sovereign wealth funds as China Investment Corp undergoes a major restructuring and continues its gradual expansion into active management strategies.

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    Chinese trust companies – coming in from the shadow

    IP Asia November 2011

    China is making a distinct attempt to legitimise and professionalise the trust sector, whose growing asset management function presents new opportunities for foreign and Chinese investors alike, Iain Mills reports.

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    Bringing the New World to the Old

    IP Asia November 2011

    by Martin Steward - Investec are the only firm that has successfully migrated from the Southern Hemisphere to build a competitive global position in institutional active asset management without a string of acquisitions - according to CEO Hendrik Du Toit

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    How smart is your beta ?

    IP Asia November 2011

    As Japanese investors continue to assess what conclusions to draw from the financial crisis, the concept of “smart beta” is drawing attention from an increasing number of pension funds.

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    AustralianSuper: treading the unlisted path to diversification

    IP Asia November 2011

    Brendan Swift looks at the transfer of the range of product and services of Westscheme, which provides superannuation for people living and working in Western Australia, into AustralianSuper.

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    Asian sovereign funds – what drives them?

    IP Asia November 2011

    Joseph Mariathasan looks at the giants of the investment world and how an understanding of what drives their investment decisions is of interest to fund managers, governments and the wider public.

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    Asian debt coming into focus

    IP Asia November 2011

    Investors should consider Asia first when structuring their bond portfolio and get rid of the notion of emerging market debt being junk, according to Aberdeen Asset Management. Barbara Ottawa reports

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    Emerging allocations: The Tide of History

    IP Asia November 2011

    by Joseph Mariathasan - A sensible solution could be to allocate a proportion to dedicated large emerging markets strategies and the rest invested in a global strategy focused on the smaller emerging and frontier countries.