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FEATURES (Published Date :11/1/2012)

ALTERNATIVES

JOBS for the boys
By Paul Mackintosh
Category :Global,U.S.A.
Alternative asset managers, hedge funds and private equity firms, have long occupied a disproportionately obscure and arcane niche in asset management; not just in the eyes of the general public, but even among their investor audience.

TRANSFER AGENCY AND FUND ADMINISTRATION

Distribution is king
By Paul Mackintosh
Category :Asia,Hong Kong,Singapore,Taiwan,Asia-Pacific
Transfer agency and fund administration are not only basic items in a financial services provider’s product offering, they are also more broadly essential infrastructure for the asset management sector and were once dubbed the ‘Cinderella of the back office’ by the Financial Times.
Transfer agency: Helping to prepare Asia’s fund industry for growth
Category :Asia,Europe
For Asia’s asset management industry to achieve its full potential, re-engineering the overlooked trade order processing and settlement life cycle is key.

FUND ADMINISTRATION

Global distribution in a regulated environment
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,Hong Kong,Korea,Taiwan
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry’s (ALFI) Asia road show stopped off in Hong Kong on September 25 to let a group of practitioners from accounting consultancies, custodian banks...

BRUNEI ROUNDTABLE

West coming back into focus; Asia boom continues
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global,Brunei
Asia Asset Management delivered its eighth Brunei Roundtable in October, bringing together key members of the regional asset management community from both the public and private sector to exchange their views on what’s new.

NATURAL RESOURCES & MINERAL FUNDS

Commodity index funds gathering pace
By James Dunn
Category :Asia,Australia,Hong Kong,Singapore,Taiwan
Natural resources funds ought to be having their time in the spotlight, as increasing demand for minerals, energy and food in the world’s largest populations – most notably China and India – drives prices of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ commodities higher.

FOCUS

The tartan touch
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Australia,Global,United Kingdom
Scotland’s reputation as a centre of investment management excellence stretches back to the 19th century, and its renown as a leader in financial services goes back even further.

CEO INTERVIEW

Stick to what you’re good at
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Australia,China,Singapore,Global,Europe
Mark Lazberger, chief executive officer at First State Investments, talks to Asia Asset Management in an exclusive interview about the firm’s operations globally and more specifically on its Asian ambitions.

ASSET MANAGEMENT & PENSIONS IN KOREA

The domino effect
By Hank Morris
Category :Korea
The Korean asset management market continues to be challenging for fund managers, both foreign and domestic. As of the end of September of 2012, according to figures provided by the Korea Financial Investment Association (KOFIA), public equity unit trust funds managed in the market continued to experience redemptions.

PENSIONS

Japan’s pension funds forced away from fixed income
By Alexander Flatscher*
Category :Japan
With a debt-to-GDP ratio in excess of 200%, two lost decades and counting, and continuing economic suffering from the impact of last year’s earthquake and tsunami, Japan’s economic situation is not the envy of many people.

GREATER CHINA

China banks march into enterprise annuity
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China
The increasing presence of Chinese banks in the country’s enterprise annuity (EA) industry in recent years looks set to be further reinforced by initiatives unveiled by the Chinese government in the twelfth five-year plan that aim to expedite reform of the country’s pension industry. The changes will open up huge opportunities for the banking sectors, according to the China Banking Association (CBA).

QUINTESSENCE LUNCHEON SERIES

China’s insurance industry gears up to outsource fund management
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,China
Reforms have been introduced for China’s insurers in a move aimed at the heart of the sector: allowing players more room to invest their resources to raise their long-term returns and to strengthen their viability.

EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS

ETFs in Asia come under the microscope
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Global,U.S.A.,Asia-Pacific
The global growth of exchange traded products is well known. What’s perhaps lesser known is the way the story is unfolding in the Asia Pacific region.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Investor lessons from volatility ETNs
Category :Asia
Gaining volatility exposure has become easier for investors with the introduction of volatility exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and volatility exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and some of these products have become very popular.

COMMENTARY

Poverty amidst plenty
By V G Kulkarni
Category :Hong Kong
Diana Chan has a plum job. She is paid well; her job in a statutory authority is high-powered but very low key. As managing director of the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA) she oversees the scheme for all working people in Hong Kong, but hardly any of them have ever heard of her.

PRIVATE EQUITY PANORAMA

Southeast Asian tigers recoil from private equity
By By Paul Mackintosh – October 8, 2012
Category :Southeast Asia
Research house Preqin’s latest special report on Asian private equity gives a thought-provoking perspective on the current state of the asset class in Asia. And in particular, it is clear that the investor base in the region is still very different from the limited partner (LP) community elsewhere.
PE players morphing into banks
By Paul Mackintosh – October 15, 2012
Category :Europe,U.S.A.
Talk to any buyout sector professional in today’s market, and the conversation will likely revolve round to leverage finance, whose scarcity value rivals oil or rare earths as a concern in the leveraged buyout (LBO) community.
No quick fixes for Europe
By Paul Mackintosh – October 22, 2012
Category :Europe
The continuing grinding pressure of the global financial crisis is having a visible effect on M&A volumes, especially in Europe. With uncertainty rife, businesses simply do not want to make decisions, it seems, and are content to hoard their cash and wait for even slightly more predictable times.
KKR and Singapore – a match made in heaven
By Paul Mackintosh – October 29, 2012
Category :Singapore,Southeast Asia
So Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co is finally opening a Southeast Asia office in Singapore, its fifth in the Asia Pacific. “Singapore is at the heart of the dynamic growth that is taking place across Southeast Asia,” said KKR’s Henry Kravis in the firm’s release.

MARKETWATCH

China the main concern for investors in the region
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Korea,Thailand
In this edition of Marketwatch, BlackRock’s head of Asia-Pacific fixed income Joel Kim and head of Asian equities Andrew Swan give their thoughts and opinions on where the various markets are headed.

SEARCH DIRECTORY

Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches November 2012
Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches November 2012

NOVEMBER 2012 E-MAGAZINE

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SPONSORED FEATURES

Taking an absolute approach
Category :Japan,Global,United Kingdom
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security” – John Allen Paulos
Effects of Revised Measures on the foreign shareholders of fund management companies
By Sandra Lu and Eric Zou
Category :Asia,China
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as “CSRC”) has recently promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Securities Investment Fund Management Companies and the Provisions on Issues concerning the Implementation of the Measures for the Administration of Securities Investment Fund Management Companies (collectively the “Revised Measures”).
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