Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 399
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Country Report
Turkey: Inflows from foundations
Reeta Paakkinen finds mixed views on the expected inflow of assets from some 250 associations and foundations
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: It’s the economy, stupid
Efforts to diversify have for too long assumed that we live in non-cyclical economies, and ignored the mix of economic factors that drive asset-class risk. Lynn Strongin Dodds takes a tour of some alternatives
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Special Report
Portfolio Construction: Allocating risk, allocating time
Martin Steward talks to ex-FRR CIO Jean-Louis Nakamura about Lombard Odier’s volatility-driven allocation and its time-horizon tactical allocation process
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Special ReportPortfolio Construction: A question of skill
The hedge fund world is supposed to be about skill. But Martin Steward asks, if you use a fund of funds, what skills are you buying – and whose?
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Special Report
Portfolio Construction: The horrible handful
Raphael Douady outlines the top five investment risks that every investor in hedge funds should know about
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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
China – could the great growth story all come crashing down?
Bee Ong talks to Satyajit Das on the structural risks that threaten to undermine China’s remarkable run of growth.
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IP Asia
Asia’s markets continue to drive the world
Asia’s economies are leading the way, forcing international investors to reconsider their overall cautious stance towards emerging equities.
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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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.
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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
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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IP Asia
Absolute return FI funds – a new generation
Interest in absolute return bond funds is returning after a calamitous experience during the market crash. But the new generation of funds being launched is likely to be very different in structure from those that performed badly as a result of the credit crunch. Joseph Mariathasan reports
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IP Asia
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.
