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TRENDS (Published Date :3/1/2013)

GOVERNMENT PENSION FUNDS

Taiwan’s LPF puts US$2 billion of mandates up for tender
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :Taiwan
Taiwan’s Labor Pension Fund (LPF) announced on February 26 it had put NT$60 billion (US$2 billion) worth of domestic market (absolute return) mandates, stemming from the Old and New schemes, up for tender.

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Links between governance and the financial crisis
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Global
Whilst it is clear that there is a link between some significant failures in corporate governance practices and the nature and extent of the financial crisis, it would be naïve to think that this was the only contributing factor, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA)’s General Manager Jessica Robinson tells Asia Asset Management.

MARKET ACCESS

China’s CSRC eliminates curbs on equity weightings
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has amended the measures for pilot domestic securities investment made by RMB Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (RQFII) in order to further promote the development of the RQFII program.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

CFA Institute paves way for Claritas programme launch
By Toby Garrod
Category :Hong Kong
The CFA Institute in Hong Kong took advantage of a visit from the head of Claritas Investment Certificate John Bowman at the end of February, holding a Claritas workshop for members of the media ahead of the upcoming global launch of the programme in May.

EQUITY MARKETS

BNP Paribas takes 14.74% stake in Bank of Nanjing
By Hui Ching-hoo
Category :China
BNP Paribas has purchased 61.13 million shares of China’s Bank of Nanjing (BoN) in the secondary market through the QFII programme. The deal made BNP Paribas the largest shareholder in the bank with a 14.74% stake.

PENSIONS

MPF diversifies investment range with ETFs
Category :Global
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced that the SPDR Gold Shares, which is backed 100% by physical gold, has been approved as a ‘permissible MPF investment’ for Hong Kong MPF constituent funds by the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA), allowing scheme providers to invest up to 10% of each constituent fund in SPDR Gold Shares.

EXCHANGE TRADED PRODUCTS

Chinese AM firms list ETFs on Tokyo Stock Exchange
By Toby Garrod
Category :China,Hong Kong,Japan
China AMC (Hong Kong) and CSOP Asset Management were given permission on February 15 to list their exchange traded funds (ETFs) on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The ETFs are the first funds overseen by Chinese asset managers to go public in Japan.

EQUITY MARKETS

Woori and NewAlpha announce first joint seed investment with Mosaic
By David Macfarlane
Category :Asia,Singapore
Woori Absolute Partners, the Singapore-based alternative investment platform of Woori Investment & Securities, and NewAlpha Asset Management...
Neptune sidesteps shackles of benchmarking
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global
As the cult of passive investing reaches ever new highs, a significant vacuum is developing in the genuinely active space, as benchmarks increasingly come to define the peripheries of what fund managers feel comfortable doing...
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