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HSBC to offer alternative servicing in Australia
Having acquired Westpac’s sub-custody business in Australia and New Zealand in 2006 there has been considerable speculation about when, not if, HSBC would broaden its service offering to include hedge funds.
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Bail-outs are not zombie lending, but there are parallels
Kevin assesses the US financial system meltdown in the context of Japan’s 15 year malaise
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Index providers respond to demand across Asia
Standard & Poor’s are working on a number of new index products focusing on Asia. Alka Banerjee, New York-based vice president of product development for S&P’s global indices business, says they are in the process of developing some tactical opportunity indices, including an extension of their dividend opportunity range. In ...
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Australian funds learning the art of compliance
Russell’s SRI expert asks whether superannuation funds are adhering to the UN’s principles of responsible investment.
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Transition Management in difficult markets
The volatility in the world’s financial markets is having a significant impact on portfolio transitions.
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The inexorable rise of Sovereign Debt
With governments lining up to announce major infrastructure building projects and companies on the hunt for affordable credit, Michael Grimes assesses the outlook for assets invested in local currency debt.
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The fall-out from Lehman Brothers
Albourne’s Richard Johnston surveys the carnage of the hedge fund landscape and looks forward to the revival.
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MPF suffering the risks of DC
Hong Kong based analyst assesses the impact of the market meltdown on Mandatory Provident Fund assets.
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Volatility funds - capitalising on market turmoil
Volatility funds have gained in popularity in the recent turmoil, though the extremes of turbulence we have witnessed recently have surprised even the specialists
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What's wrong with Risk Management?
Investors who placed their faith in the various risk management tools available may well be asking whether the whole system is flawed. Michael Langton and Angus Hung suggest better governance is at the heart of the solution.
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Japan - staying calm amid the panic
The Japanese equity market is trading below book value and remains one of the cheapest of the global markets. So should international investors be making a tactical switch in favour of Japan at this stage?
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Fear factor drives Japanese investors to alternatives
With 80% of investors lacking belief in stock markets, pension funds would be wise to consider asset classes with less risk than Japanese equities
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Market meltdown a good advert for sustainable investing
As the implications of the financial markets crisis dawns on investors, the search for new growth investment opportunities begins
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Downturn offers boardrooms opportunity for reassessment
Governance consultant Lynn Ralph talks about what institutional investors can learn from her experience of working with Australian superannuation funds
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IASB continues its comedy of errors
Further deliberation of the International Accouting Standards Board’s (IASB) preliminary views on pensions accounting kicked-off pretty much as we would expect, with staff failing to meet a self-imposed deadline, and a dose of unnecessary secrecy. The plan, said Andrea Pryde, on 19 November, was to “present an overview of the ...
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Commodity turnaround
With volatility is still at its highest levels (56%), the stock markets again had to face adverse conditions in November and produced a significantly negative return (-7.18%), although this was less than half October’s record. The S&P500 index has now returned to its level of July 2003. Similarly, the commodities ...
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Negative streak continues
Hedge funds continued their negative streak for the sixth month in a row, falling 0.8% as November saw the continuation of several of the dominant themes from September and October: distressed selling, deleveraging and redemptions among hedge funds, heightened volatility and an increasing disconnect between asset prices and underlying fundamentals, ...
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Looking ahead to recession
Yield curve/duration The US economy slid into recession in December 2007, says the National Bureau of Economic Research. As we start 2009 the extreme pain being felt in both the jobs and the housing markets is not easing; figures from the Mortgage Bankers Association suggest that in Q3 2008 one ...
