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FEATURES (Published Date :2/1/2013)

2013 OUTLOOK

New world order set to take shape
By William R Thomson
Category :Global,U.S.A.
Every four years since 1789, the new president of the US has been sworn in on January 21. A more recent development is for the new arrival to receive a long-range assessment, prepared by the National Intelligence Council, of the likely global political and economic challenges ahead.

GREATER CHINA

CIC goes back to fundamentals
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,China
China’s sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation (CIC), is setting its sights on previously overlooked sectors such as manufacturing, infrastructure, and properties in 2013. The aim is to further diversify investment risk...

CIO FORUM – 2013 OUTLOOK

Inflation remains Asia’s perennial bugbear
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Global
CIOs and investment experts from leading asset management firms operating throughout the globe give Asia Asset Management their views in regard to where the various markets are headed this year.

PENSIONS IN AUSTRALIA

Super perception shifting from accumulation to pension funding
By James Dunn
Category :Australia
Australians are justifiably proud of their nation’s world-renowned superannuation, or retirement funding, system. Australia’s A$1.4 trillion (US$1.47 trillion) superannuation pool represents the world’s fourth-largest retirement funding base – despite Australia being nowhere near the fourth-largest economy in the world.

FIXED INCOME

Nurturing the offshore RMB bond market
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Asia,China
An RMB offshore bond market has taken shape in Hong Kong over the past two years thanks to a Chinese government initiative to designate the city as an offshore RMB centre under the ‘Twelfth Five Year Plan’.

PRIVATE EQUITY

Competing as the rules change
By Paul Mackintosh
Category :Asia,Global
Four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the verdict appears to be that private equity (PE) overall has had a relatively good crisis: not enjoying a significant upsurge in popularity among investors, but at the same time not notably penalised by the heavy new regulation and pressure on its fundamental business model as was the case with investment banks.

CEO INTERVIEW

Education vital, says CFA Institute boss
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Australia,Singapore,Asia-Pacific
Paul H Smith, CFA, managing director, Asia-Pacific at CFA Institute, puts his finger on the pulse of the current financial climate and provides insight as to the Institute’s role from both a regional and global perspective during an exclusive interview with Asia Asset Management.

MPF INDICATORS

MPF INDICATORS
Category :Asia,Global
Top 5 and Bottom 5 Equity Fund (HK & China) Funds Ranked by 1 Year Return (Investment Returns as at 31 December 2012)

COMMENTARY

The fuming dragon
By V G Kulkarni
Category :Asia,China,Japan,Global,U.S.A.,Asia-Pacific
Because it is both a mythical and celestial beast, the Chinese Dragon has a powerful hold on the minds of East Asians. And even as the Year of the Dragon entered its last phase, it amply reminded all of us that we can forget it only at our own peril. Beijing is...

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES

What price security?
By Patrick Janssen and James King*
Category :Global,Europe
Asian investors have long allocated to Europe’s credit markets but the prolonged tightening of spreads presents an interesting challenge for anyone, wherever they are.

PRIVATE EQUITY PANORAMA

A flash in the pan?
By By Paul Mackintosh – January 21, 2013
Category :Asia,Japan
Cerberus Capital Management’s final exit from its over decade-old investment in Japan’s Aozora Bank last week, earning some US$1.7 billion for a 55% stake sale, came as something of a blast from the past for Asian private equity (PE).
Dell deal could reinvigorate PE credentials
By By Paul Mackintosh – January 28, 2013
Category :Global
Never mind the news that Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia is nearing a US$750 million first close on the c.$1.5 billion target for its fourth fund – more fundraising comfort that Asia arguably does not need.

THAILAND ROUNDTABLE

Pensions pondered in Thailand
By Toby Garrod
Category :Thailand,Global
Institutional pensions and investments were the topics of the day at Asia Asset Management’s Fifth Annual Thailand Roundtable in Bangkok on November 20, 2012. The conclave gave leading players from Thailand’s financial establishment a chance to exchange views on both local and global issues.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Building benchmarks of unlisted infrastructure equity investment
Category :Global
In this article, drawn from research carried out with the support of Meridiam Infrastructure and Campbell Lutyens, Frederic Blanc-Brude, research director at EDHEC Risk Institute – Asia, argues that unlisted infrastructure equity benchmarks have the potential to meet the major expectations institutional investors have of infrastructure investment and could provide infrastructure market beta.

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Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches February 2013
Directory of Manager Appointments & Searches February 2013

FEBRUARY 2013 E-MAGAZINE

FEBRUARY 2013 E-MAG
Click to view the electronic version of Asia Asset Management's February 2013 issue.

SPONSORED FEATURES

Yuanta SITC’s CEO outlines strategy to tie up Asia-wide operation
Category :Asia,China
While much has changed in terms of business operations since Yuanta Securities Investment Trust Company (SITC) merged with Polaris SITC in early May 2012, much also remains to be achieved as synergies are further refined.
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