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Institutions & Pensions

Korea Teachers awards W300 billion mandate to Goldman

The Korea Teachers Pension Fund (KTPF) and Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) have finalised an agreement for a strategic partnership, which involves the fund house managing W300 billion ($292 million) in assets until 2011. GSAM is KTPF’s first strategic partner for overseas investments, with both parties having signed a memorandum of understanding to pursue this partnership in February. KTPF already has a second overseas strategic... Read the whole story

By Rita Raagas De Ramos | 09 May 2008

Alternative Investments

ADB launches Climate Change Fund

The fund is aimed at facilitating more investments in developing Asian countries to address the causes and consequences of global warming, which is fast becoming a popular theme among fund managers. More

By Rita Raagas De Ramos | 09 May 2008

Alternative Investments

Steering clear of private equity's bottom quartile funds

Kelvin Liu of Invesco's fund of private equity fund unit gives a few tips on how to find a good manager. More

By Simon Osborne | 09 May 2008

Markets & Regulation

Indonesia tops Merrill Lynch’s Asia model

The firm’s new quantitative allocation model for Asia factors in variables such as currency, economic growth, and earnings forecasts. More

By Rita Raagas De Ramos | 09 May 2008

Commentary

On holiday

AsianInvestor.net will close Monday for a Hong Kong public holiday celebrating Buddha's birthday. More

By Rita Raagas De Ramos | 09 May 2008

Investors turn to equities amid global uncertainty

Principal Global Investors CEO Jim McCaughan says the traditional home bias and preference for fixed-income instruments is giving way to cross-border trends. More

Upgrading Taiwanese real estate

From AsianInvestor magazine: Both global private-equity players and Taiwan’s institutional investors are keen on domestic property allocations, which now compare favourably to real-estate investments in mainland China. More

Institutions & Pensions

Labour Pension Fund awards $1.5 billion of overseas mandates

Templeton and AllianceBerstein score big wins. Newton and Goldman Sachs Asset Management also secure mandates.

People Moves

Prudential hires Arne Lindman as Asia fund CEO

Lindman will take over from Alan Wren who has served as interim CEO since Ajay Srinivasan left Prudential in June 2007 to join the Aditya Birla Group in Mumbai.

People Moves

Ping An poaches CEO of First State Cinda

Li Kenan has resigned from First State Cinda to be reunited with ex-CEO of Colonial First State John Pearce in the Ping An Group.

Markets & Regulation

Southeast Asian mutual fund assets total $84 billion

Cerulli Associates expects mutual fund assets in Southeast Asia to grow 17% annually over the next five years, a brisk pace compared to the more developed mutual fund markets but slower than their 31.4% growth in the 2002-2007 period.

People Moves

Luca Frontini ousted as CEO of Lombarda China

Shareholders of the China fund JV vote to remove Frontini as CEO but the circumstances surrounding his departure remain a mystery.

Alternative Investments

Final extension for AsiaPharm takeover set for May 22

MBK Partners stands firm on its takeover offer which, as of April 30, had been accepted by 77.19% of AsiaPharm’s shareholders. Templeton remains opposed to the deal.

Institutions & Pensions

Hong Kong citizens know their pension funds won’t suffice

HSBC Insurance is to spend HK$20 million on programmes that will help to raise awareness about retirement planning.

People Moves

Bank of New York Mellon appoints Asia-Pacific chairman

Chris Sturdy takes on the Asia-Pacific chairmanship and is replaced by Cole-Fontayn as head of the bank's depositary receipt business.

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