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FEATURES (Published Date :6/1/2012)

GREATER CHINA

Taiwan acts to attract more foreign investment
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China,Taiwan
Taiwan’s Securities Investment Trust & Consulting Association (SITCA) is working towards forging better ties with China to provide greater investment opportunities for its fund management industry.

RETHINKING VOLATILITY

Volatility shaking the house down
By Hank Morris
Category :Hong Kong,Korea,Global
While for managers of some hedge funds, volatility forms one of their “investment buckets” and constitutes an asset class in its own right, for most portfolio managers in Asia their interest in volatility stems from the impact that it has upon the asset buckets they are committed to – and they are generally quite familiar with the impact that volatility can have upon the established risk budgets at their institutions.
S&P GIVI: Two good ideas in one index
Category :Global
Launched in March 2012, the S&P GIVI (Global Intrinsic Value Index) is a rules-based, global equity strategy index designed to capture two well-documented, persistent anomalies in the equity markets – namely, the low-volatility and value anomalies.
A measure of variation
Category :China,Singapore,Global,U.S.A.
Volatility forecasting is an important task in financial markets, and it has held the attention of academics and practitioners for decades.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Handling the volatility and downside risk of equity holdings
Category :Global,Europe
In 2008, worldwide equity markets collapsed and many assets that conventional investment wisdom until then regarded as effective equity diversifiers, such as commodities, also experienced dramatic falls.

MENA REPORT

Politics not economics to dictate play
By Imran Ahmed
Category :Middle East,Africa
Even by its own historical standards, the last 18 months have been tumultuous for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

CEO INTERVIEW

Building an asset management industry from the ground up
By David Macfarlane
Category :China,Hong Kong,Middle East
Rapid growth is the primary reason for the accumulation of substantial wealth in Qatar and the Gulf region.

SHANGHAI ETF FORUM

Market vibrant but regulators hold key to fund growth
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China,Global
With the rapid development of exchange traded funds (ETF) in China, Asia Asset Management and ETFI Asia held their first ETF roundtable in Shanghai on April 27, bringing together a group of industry experts from local and foreign ETF sponsors, index providers and exchanges to share their perspectives on topics such as new product development, cross-border opportunities and regulatory changes.

TAIWAN ASSET MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW

Regulatory restrictions inhibiting foreign investors
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Taiwan,Global
Taiwan’s asset management industry seems to have reinvigorated itself since the beginning of the year, with onshore fund managers’ assets under management (AUM) increasing to NT$1.81 trillion (US$61.5 billion) as at the end of March, from NT$1.73 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011.

PENSIONS

Taiwan’s LPF shifting towards alternatives
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Taiwan
The Labor Pension Fund (LPF), one of the largest pension schemes in Taiwan with total assets of more than NT$1.38 trillion (US$46 billion), is looking to raise its exposure to foreign markets by putting around 30% of new contributions into overseas assets.

HRM & PEOPLE STRATEGIES

Talent battle taking on new edge
By James Dunn
Category :Australia
While the Australian funds management industry continues largely to ride out the storms that continue to buffet its international peers – on the back of its central position in managing the nation’s AU$1.34 trillion-and-growing superannuation pool – human resources professionals in the industry know they are in a battle to attract and retain key talent.

COMMENTARY

With great power comes great responsibility
By V G Kulkarni
Category :China
As blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng flew to New York and freedom, another incident came to mind.

INSIGHT

Asean, China and India – the great transformation?
By William R Thomson
Category :Asia
With the world in the midst of the greatest shift in economic power in at least two centuries, it is useful to try and estimate where these trends could take us in the future in order to be prepared and to adjust accordingly.

MARKETWATCH

Stabilisation of global growth positive but modest levels expected
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,China,Korea,Middle East,U.S.A.,United Kingdom
In this edition of Marketwatch, Dave Fishwick, head of equities and multi asset at M&G Investments and Ewen Cameron Watt, managing director and chief investment strategist of the BlackRock Investment Institute, give their thoughts and opinions on where the various markets are headed.

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Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches June 2012
Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches June 2012

JUNE 2012 E-MAGAZINE

JUNE 2012 E-MAG
Category :Asia,China,Asia-Pacific
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