Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 395
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Securities Services: Testing times ahead
With consolidation and growth expected in the European custody markets in the coming years, Luxembourg could be one of the biggest beneficiaries, says Iain Morse
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Securities Services: A matter of choice
Andrew Baker says the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive could restrict choice and impose some unreasonable burdens on depositaries
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Securities Services: Welcome to the dark side
Traders seeking maximum liquidity with minimum impact on the markets are turning to the dark arts, says Simmy Grewal
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Securities Services: Risk and return
The credit crisis has focused the minds of lenders on getting their risk-reward parameters right, as Susan Pike explains
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Special ReportBP, investors’ blind spot
Has the need for dividends compromised the green credentials of pension funds when it comes to oil companies such as BP? Nina Röhrbein reports
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ESG - Indifference and the impact of mega-trends
Where is the practice of environmental, social and governance investing headed? In Asia, sadly, the concept has not really taken hold in the way it has in other parts of the world. Bee Ong 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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Industry Debates Future, Growth Remains Strong
Australia prides itself in having a self-contained and sophisticated financial services market. Betty Kotevski talks to superannuation industry heads to assess how market will evolve from here.
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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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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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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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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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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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Uncertainty Creates a Buying Opportunity
In the last decade Japan has outperformed US and other major world markets in dollar terms
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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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GIC sees challenges for the region
Shifting economic power could lead to conflicts among nations. Asia will increasingly face labour, natural resource, and commodity constraints to its high growth strategy.
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Politics weigh heavy on GPIF diversification plan
Perhaps developments in financial markets have played a role in bringing GPIF to step up at least its research effort into non-listed equity and infrastructure, as possible alternative investment categories.
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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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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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Features
Thumbs up for central control
This month’s Off The Record poll focused on derivatives, operational risk and custody. Some 61% of respondents felt it was positive that measures in Brussels and the US would force pension funds to clear derivatives using a central counterparty. “Central banks need to be able to control markets in extremis, as we saw two years ago. The only beneficiaries of off-exchange derivatives are investment banks. End users of derivatives should be happy to see them go to central clearers,” said a UK fund. Another UK fund added: “Being transparent will be important”.
