Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 326
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Investor sentiment - light at the end of the tunnel
2013 may be a better year ahead for asset owners, Elvin Yu, Head of Institutional Business, Greater China & Southeast Asia at Allianz Global Investors, says in a chat with Wing-Gar Cheng.
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Opportunistic returns in distressed assets
Wing-Gar Cheng reports about assets in Asia that may provide the high returns opportunistic real estate investors expect from this type of play.
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Australia: not the investment gateway to Asia
It is right on Asia’s doorstep, but James Dunn finds that outside the big resource names there is surprisingly little Asia exposure in Australia’s stock market.
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Investing in wine doesn’t necessarily give a hangover
Wealthy investors share with Bee-Lin Ang their thoughts on investing in one particular commodity product.
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Commodities are increasingly becoming mainstream
There may be some humps and bumps along the way but it is likely be a multi-decade growth ahead for commodities in Asia. Wing-Gar Cheng reports.
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Indonesia's Taspen sees opportunities for the country to keep growing
Bee-Lin Ang looks at how Taspen, the state institution that manages Indonesian civil servants’ retirement funds, finds opportunities in the local market.
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China refines QFII and RQFII to broaden appeal
Beyond quota expansion, China takes steps to improve structural market integrity for QFII and RQFII, writes Iain Mills.
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Japan - Setting priorities for the golden years
Norihisa Tamura, the new chief of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare lists his plans to address the country’s ageing population in an interview with Nenkin Joho.
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'Abenomics' - all set to fire up Japan?
Japanese financial markets started the year on a high note as the newly-formed government led by Shinzo Abe started announcing the measures to support their pre-election pledge of leading the Japanese economy back to growth. Even before coming to power through the general election on 16 December, in a well-orchestrated ...
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Improving Asian corporate governance, one investment at a time
Peter Guy measures the effectiveness of good corporate governance in Asia.
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Hedge funds in Asia - Things are looking better
Albourne Partners’ Richard Johnston reviews returns for the industry in 2012 and finds bright spots in 2013’s outlook
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Mirae Asset - Wisdom in diversification
Stella Kim chats with Mirae Asset Financial Group’s founder and Chairman Park Hyeon-Joo on opportunities in Asia.
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Features
When west goes east
‘Go West’ was not just a 1990s song by the Pet Shop Boys. For decades, this was the goal of people trying to escape from life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Mark-to-market blues
Lucy Prebble’s musical Enron, about the troubled energy company of the same name, famously features a song routine on mark-to-market accounting. Marking pension liabilities to market is a complex issue, fraught not only with market and technical considerations but now, increasingly, with political ones.
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Better the virtuous circle
In theory, insurers, pension funds, endowments and other long-term investors will match their liability stream with long-term investments in the productive economy. So, over several economic cycles, their investments fund their liabilities, but their investments in government debt also help pay for the roads and schools that benefit current and future members and pensioners. Their equity and corporate-bond investments finance company growth and foster employment. Property and infrastructure investments help them attain real, inflation-linked cashflows, while also financing long-term economic expansion.
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Crunch time for UK occupational pensions
Unveiling in his proposals to reinvigorate workplace pensions – a long-standing pledge of the UK’s coalition government that critics noted, until that point, had yet to be addressed – pensions minister Steve Webb argued that continued inaction in the area of occupational schemes was simply not an option.
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Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
For months now, a large and rather vocal contingent of the European pensions industry has been debating the additional costs they might incur if they are subject to solvency capital requirements similar to Solvency II’s pillar one.
