All articles by Richard Newell – Page 2
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Keeping a lid on volatility
While it has a high exposure to equities, the Singapore Management University Endowment fund, safeguards against risk by investing in a wide range of asset classes, writes Richard Newell
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When tradition meets modernity
The University of Melbourne fund is run along US lines with an ever increasing attention to private equity but it is careful to retain a strong sense of the past, writes Richard Newell
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Learning from your mistakes
Five years on one of the biggest stock market bubbles ever, investors such as fund manager Cliff Asness still bear the scars from being a tech-bubble naysayer. Richard Newell reports
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Investing through the FII route
India has made great strides in attracting foreign investment and there is no shortage of high quality asset managers operating in the region, writes Richard Newell
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Backdrop to the Pacific century
Richard Newell looks at some of the key dynamics at play in the Asian region
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Looking for improvement
The circus came to Hong Kong in September. MIPIM, the real estate industry’s annual French Riviera jamboree, put down its first mark in Asia. How did the idea translate from Cannes to Wanchai? Richard Newell reports
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Asian ambition
A big sell-off of listed property has not dented the confidence of Asia’s real estate market. Richard Newell talked to the major players at the annual Real Estate Investment World Conference in Singapore
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Demographics looming in Asia
The annual Asian Pension Fund Roundtable has established a reputation as a high level think-tank on best practice and corporate governance. Under the heading ‘Demographic pressures in Asia: Driving retirement system reform and capital market development’, this year’s event, held in Beijing, brought together representatives from pension funds, government agencies ...
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Singapore searches for the 'X-factor'
When asked if Singapore had the “X-factor” of a top-class, world city, many of its urban planners, architects and developers said “no”. They believed that it was nothing more than a “wannabe” in global terms. Nevertheless, as southeast Asia’s most liquid real estate market and the current hub for the ...
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Crunch year for pension funds
It would be wrong to make hasty conclusions about the value added by alternative investment strategies. Hedge funds should be allowed to show their worth over time. Nonetheless, this year could prove to be a turning point. Consultants Wilshire Associates managing director Howard Yata has suggested that it is too ...
