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The EPF earned 60.98 billion ringgit of gross investment income in 2020, up 21.26% from 50.29 billion ringgit in 2019

Malaysia’s EPF assets hit 1 trillion ringgit as equities drive record investment income

March 2, 2021

Asia Pacific fintech fundraising falls to six-year low on pandemic

March 2, 2021
Market Presence: Fintech investment in China decreased to $1.6 billion in 2020 from $4.8 billion in 2019

T. Rowe Price opens research office in Shanghai

March 2, 2021
Market Presence: The research office will be headed by Dai Wang, who has worked at T. Rowe Price’s headquarters in Baltimore

Thailand wants crypto traders to have at least 1 million baht annual income

March 1, 2021
Regulation: Those who don’t meet the income or net worth requirements can buy cryptocurrencies via digital asset fund managers

Asia outbound property investments hit by pandemic

March 1, 2021
Real Estate: CBRE expects real estate investments to pick up and investors to seek acquisition opportunities within Asia

PE Panorama: Private equity’s death premium from nursing homes

March 1, 2021
Private Equity: The paper says private-equity ownership raises short-term mortality of Medicare patients in the US by 10%
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MARCH 2021 VOL.26 NO.3

So good it’s bad?

It’s a great time to be a sustainability editor – if you’re lazy. Never, even during the dot-com era, have I been bombarded with so many offers of comment from asset managers eager to set out their stalls. If I let the floodgates stand open, I’d have enough copy to last for years

The faceoff over value

Value investing is one of the most enduring and common-sensically persuasive of all investment strategies. Nonetheless, it runs into periodic bouts of bad press. An article in The Economist magazine in November 2020 declared that value investing was “struggling to remain relevant”, faced with issues related to the rise of hard-to-track intangible assets

Poised for battle

The fight against climate change has picked up pace even as economies around the world have been thrown into disarray as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the UK’s Pensions and Financial Inclusion Minister Guy Opperman, the next decade will be the most important in the fight to tackle climate change

Integrating sustainability

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) is enjoying its moment in the sun as an investment approach in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. In just one data point, Morningstar reports an 84% quarter-on-quarter jump in inflows to European sustainability-focused funds in the fourth quarter of 2020

Supers in flux

In many respects, Australia’s A$3 trillion (US$2.5 trillion) superannuation industry is the country’s pride: a compulsory saving of a portion of wages and salaries that is invested to provide retirement income

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