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FEATURES (Published Date :12/1/2012)

GREATER CHINA

Private teacher pension fund to push ahead with member choice platform
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,Taiwan
Taiwan’s official body that oversees the pension fund for private school teachers, the Supervisory Committee Managing Retirement, Compensation, Resignation and Severance Matters for Private School Teachers and Staff (SCMRC), expects the introduction of member choice in the first quarter of 2013 to set an example for pension reform on the island state.

PRIVATE BANKING

Wealth preservation places higher than wealth growth
By Paul Mackintosh
Category :Asia,Indonesia,Global,Europe
Private banking and wealth management has been viewed in some quarters as a panacea for a financial services industry forced into retreat by the global financial crisis (GFC) and regulatory changes, whether crisis-induced or already under way.

WEALTH MANAGEMENT

Paying it forward
By Toby Garrod
Category :Asia,Global,Europe
With the spirit of sacrifice at the heart of the Asian entrepreneurial mindset, wealth managers in the region are assigned with a profound duty: To carry forward the fruits of a sacrificed life to the fortunate progeny.

TAIWAN ROUNDTABLE

Pensions and investments: The new opportunity set
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,Taiwan
At its eighth annual Taiwan roundtable held in Taipei on October 25, Asia Asset Management brought together market pundits from foreign and local asset management firms, consultants, and academics to share their perspectives on asset management trends in Asia and new opportunities set on the pension and investment horizon.
Derailers in the MIST (countries)
By Hank Morris
Category :Asia,Taiwan,Global
As part of the Taiwan roundtable, Asia Asset Management held a panel discussion on the topic of ‘Finding Growth in a Low Yield Regime’.

PENSIONS OVERVIEW

Work longer for less
By Paul Mackintosh
Category :Asia,Australia,Hong Kong,Japan
The state of global pensions provision, not usually a headline issue, has gained a higher profile recently thanks to the eurozone debt crisis.

2012 REVIEW

Sentiment warms following harsh spring
By Toby Garrod
Category :Asia,Global
China mutual funds down by over 520 billion yuan in 2011 China’s mutual fund sector was down 127.6 billion yuan (US$20.2 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2011, an improvement on the 264.4 billion yuan loss recorded in Q3. Overall, the sector, including outflows, suffered losses of more than 520 billion RMB over 2011, according to consultancy firm Wind Information. China AMC and E Fund – China’s largest asset management firms – reported fourth-quarter losses of 10.6 billion yuan and 10.9 billion yuan, respectively.

PARABLE

Satan’s bait and switch trick
By Tim Hamlett
Category :Global
And it came to pass that a Financial Consultant did eat freely and injudiciously of oysters, such that his guts turned to water and he incontinently and prematurely expired in the midst of a Phuket...

ALTERNATIVES

Make or break time for Korean hedge funds
By Hank Morris
Category :Asia,Korea
This first year for Korean domestic hedge funds has been a challenging one in which managers have struggled to produce positive returns. As of the end of October, there were 20 domestic hedge funds in existence and of that number only nine reported a profit.

CEO INTERVIEW

Against all odds
By Tan Lee Hock
Category :Asia,China,Hong Kong,Korea
As Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (SMAM) celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, its President and Chief Executive Officer Ryoji Maeda can look back with satisfaction on the progress that the firm has made in the past decade.

PRIVATE EQUITY PANORAMA

Credibility crunch hits European VC industry
By By Paul Mackintosh – November 26, 2012
Category :Europe
European venture capital circles must still be reeling from the news that much-diminished IT giant Hewlett Packard is facing an US$8.8 billion writedown on the value of its software business, much of it consequent on the $11 billion purchase of British software firm Autonomy, product of the UK’s much-lauded Silicon Fen entrepreneurial cluster.
Japan takes affirmative action to help the aged
By By Paul Mackintosh – December 3, 2012
Category :Asia,Japan
According to Reuters and Japanese media, Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s biggest public pension fund at US$1.31 trillion, has selected four external providers, three local and one international, to conduct feasibility studies into alternative investments.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Change is coming for pension plans
Category :Asia,Global
The pension crisis at the turn of the century illustrates the need to improve the stability of funded systems and ensure greater reliance on these systems, as in the future a greater share of retirement income will come from funded pensions.
Risk models under fire
Category :Global
The recent Towers Watson’s publication “The Wrong Type of Snow-Risk Revisited”, took a high level overview of risk management.

ROAD WARRIOR

Meeting with triumph and disaster
By Robert Lloyd George*
Category :Asia,Global
Over a recent five-week period, I have visited nine countries, including Japan for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, and Brunei; followed by the UK, France, and Germany, and finally the US in time for the presidential election.

COMMENTARY

Bread and circuses
By V G Kulkarni
Category :China,Global,U.S.A.,Myanmar
In the ancient Republic of Rome, before the advent of autocratic Caesars and emperors, cynical politicians used to buy votes by offering the masses “bread and circuses” – food and other material inducements for sustenance and games and circuses at the famous Coliseum for entertainment.

REGULATION

SFC urges compliance with global regulatory shifts
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,Australia,Hong Kong,Singapore
Hong Kong’s Securities & Futures Commission (SFC) CEO Ashley Alder urges market watchdogs in the region to properly participate in the global regulatory agenda, but to do so without lowering their own standards.

TAIWAN

Financial scandals invoke investor confidence measures
By Donna Chen
Category :Asia,Taiwan
The asset management industry in Taiwan has been on a roller coaster ride since late September, subject to a jarring flow of positive and negative news.

MARKET OUTLOOK

Positive projections, but niggling negatives abound
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global,Asia-Pacific
If the projections of some of the biggest names in asset management are correct, the inauspiciously branded 2013 will actually be a year of global stability, with the Asia Pacific again outperforming as an investment destination.

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