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China to launch wealth management link with Hong Kong, Macau

July 2, 2020

Malaysia’s PNB taps Khazanah Nasional executive as new CEO

July 2, 2020

Going Places: Mr. Ahmad Zulqarnain succeeds Jalil Rasheed, who resigned as president and CEO of PNB on June 15

Singapore’s Clime Capital, SEACEF launch world’s first high-risk philanthropic fund

July 2, 2020

Environmental: The fund will invest in clean energy projects across Southeast Asia

Analysis: After opening up 401(k) to private equity, Scalia looks to bar ESG

July 2, 2020

Analysis: Labor Department’s move against ESG investments for US 401(k) plans doesn’t exactly spell care for retirees

Philippine pension GSIS to start collecting loan repayments in July after extending moratorium

June 30, 2020

Pensions: GSIS President Rolando Ladesma Macasaet says the extension will provide financial relief to many government employees and pensioners

South Korea’s NPS, Allianz form US$2.3 billion property fund

June 30, 2020

Market Access: The fund will invest in property in the logistics, office, and multi-family sectors across Asia Pacific

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June 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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