Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 320
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China’s securities reforms may hit a bump
Orlando Bowie on China’s securities reforms under the new political leadership.
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Japan’s recovering investment climate
Expectations regarding “Abenomics” have sent the stock markets soaring. Pension funds have increasingly been reporting cumulative returns of over 10% thus far in the fiscal year, and the atmosphere among pension investors has brightened considerably for the first time in quite some years.
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Promising prospects for public-private partnerships
Wing-Gar Cheng explores the opportunities for public-private partnerships in health and senior care in Asia.
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China - An emerging hedge fund opportunity
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston assesses the financial reforms in China.
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A sober investment approach
Bee-Lin Ang speaks with the chief of a Singapore wine company and explores his investment beliefs and guiding principles.
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UniSuper - Valuation is everything
Brendan Swift looks at UniSuper’s guiding principle as market volatility undercuts valuations.
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Getting up to speed with the rest of Asia
Iain Mills looks at how Chinese institutional investors are following their Asian counterparts in financing economic rebalancing.
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MySuper and the role of custodians
Bee-Lin Ang reports about how regulations and technology are changing the role of custodians in Australia.
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Skirting a currency war
Joseph Mariathasan looks at how Asia’s economies can withstand the growing volatility in the currency markets.
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New trends in portfolio gatekeeping
FundQuest acts as a gatekeeper for the bank’s clients screening and monitoring approved products and funds. Post global financial crisis, the number of institutions demanding these kinds of services has grown alongside high net-worth individuals and family offices.
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Back office services - resistance is futile
Outsource service providers unanimously describe changes that will entirely alter how the finance and asset management industries plan, process and run their businesses. By Peter Guy
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Accelerating the evolution of climate finance
In March, the board members of the UN Green Climate Fund gathered in Berlin for the third meeting since their appointment, tasked with planning for the mobilisation by 2020 of $100bn per year in long-term financing for climate action in developing countries.
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Mutual Recognition reshapes the fund landscape
Catherine Simmons, State Street’s Head of Regulatory, Industry and Government Affairs in Asia Pacific, discusses the opportunities and challenges.
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Is Asia overly confident?
“I would not assume that a crisis would not happen. That was the assumption in Europe and that was the assumption in the US.”
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Cross-border lessons
The 2010 comedy film Rien à Déclarer focused on the rivalry between a pair of customs officers either side of the pre-Schengen Franco-Belgian frontier.
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War, what is it good for?
In the UK we’ve had quantitative easing for so long now that one of the bonds that the Bank of England started buying in August 2009 is about to mature. When that happens, on 7 March, the Bank says that it will re-invest the £6.6bn in more bonds. Is that monetary loosening? My brain hurts just thinking about it.
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Read the small print
The lawsuits now being filed against asset managers for various transgressions in the wake of the financial crisis have been a long time in coming, but it would seem things are in full swing now.
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Not too hot, not too cold
“The Union has today set itself a new strategic goal for the next decade: to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion.”
