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South Korea's POBA seeks managers for US$50 million China mandate

July 13, 2020

Indonesia mutual fund assets shed 11% in first half amid pandemic

July 13, 2020

Investments: Stock funds and bond funds fell 26.14% and 6.75%, respectively, in January-June 2020

Australia’s Media Super and Cbus Super in A$60 billion merger

July 13, 2020

Pensions: The superannuation funds will launch a joint retirement saving platform in 2021

PE Panorama: Red faces for pension funds

July 13, 2020

Private Equity: As criticism gets louder and broader, industry may have to admit it can’t make outsized returns anymore

Japan’s Dai-ichi Life buys Henkel’s US$68.9 billion ESG bonds

July 10, 2020

Environmental: The Henkel bonds are the world’s first corporate debt issued to finance plastic waste reduction

Singapore’s Temasek portfolio may be worth over S$300 billion, CEO says

July 10, 2020

Investments: Temasek stays focused on long-term returns and doesn’t get distracted by short-term portfolio value changes, CEO says

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July 2020 VOL.25 NO.7

The capital swamp

To offer a perspective on a clutch of perspectives on the post-coronavirus world, I’d like to skip over the crisis entirely and revert to a 2017 Harvard Business Review paper titled “Strategy in the Age of Superabundant Capital”.

Terms of endurement

Humankind has made huge strides in technology. Big data and data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning are being used in various daily applications and industries. But when it comes to retirement schemes, we appear to be stuck in the past.

Bonds beckon

Foreign participation in China’s onshore bond market could increase sharply over the long term as RMB-denominated bonds are added to international benchmarks, according to a senior executive at State Street Corporation.

A standout amid crisis

Following a decade long run-up in asset classes, pension funds and other key institutional investors had been positioning themselves defensively in anticipation of a market correction even before the onslaught of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdowns to control the spread of Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

A need to step up

Malaysia’s corporate governance has undergone some significant changes to address the weaknesses exposed by the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.

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