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...Those approached include Eiji Ueda, now the chief investment officer of Japan’s $1.45tn Government Pension Investment Fund, Takashi Murata, the former co-head of Goldman’s Asia Pacific Private Investing...
...Four public pension plans with more than $4bn allocated to China-focused private equity funds told the Financial Times they were ready to delay redemptions from investments nearing the end of 10-year lifespans...
...In the end I decided to keep my Asia ex-Japan fund. Now, let us turn to Japan....
...fund, will reignite growth for the flagging economy....
...“Valuations might be stretched but they could stay that way for a long time if India is the only economy that is so clearly expansionary,” said Alice Wang, Asia ex-Japan portfolio manager at Quaero Capital...
...Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has slowed direct investments in the country, while Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has paused future direct investments altogether....
...My two smallest funds when we began were (and remain) Asian focused: Japanese large-caps and developed Asian equities ex-Japan. There is a tad over a tenth of my portfolio in each....
...Bowie changed course slickly in the 1980s by embracing funk and soaring to a zenith of global stardom....
...This will put it towards the bottom of the list of OECD economies, likely below the US, Japan, and the EU....
...The 10 biggest companies in Japan by market cap were founded, on average, before the second world war. By comparison, half of America’s did not exist when I was first managing funds....
...Women in Asia (ex-Japan) will hold $27tn in wealth by 2026, $6tn more than women in western Europe, according to analysis done by Boston Consulting Group for Nikkei Asia....
...Masataka Miyazono There is no single pool of money larger than Japan’s $1.5tn Government Pension Investment Fund, which gives its head Masataka Miyazono a lot of sway in the financial world....
...It is exquisitely timely, even if the UK episode related to pension funds....
...It will include measures to unlock productive investment from defined contribution pension funds and other sources, make the London Stock Exchange a more attractive place to list, and complete our response...
...The new firms also benefited from the willingness of Korea’s giant pension funds, including the mighty public National Pension Service (NPS), to invest in local players even if they had limited experience...
...Powered by South Korea’s mighty National Pension Service, local players have emerged to compete with established global private equity firms....
...Japan’s ¥193.3tn ($1.7tn) Government Pension Investment Fund has blamed poor liquidity and futures trading options, and lack of international settlement for last month’s decision to exclude renminbi-denominated...
...The ex-chair of the board of the world’s largest pension fund, who oversaw its $1.7tn portfolio as it became a pioneer of responsible investment, has warned the institution to remember its core duty to Japanese...
...Elsewhere, Haitong International’s London-listed Tabula Haitong Asia ex-Japan High Yield Corporate Bond ESG ETF, which was launched in September last year, saw its assets grow tenfold to $205.9m over the...
...Haitong International Asset Management has teamed up with Tabula Investment Management to launch an Asia ex-Japan high-yield corporate environmental, social and governance bond exchange traded fund in London...
...Fund managers said shares in good quality companies had been sold off too hard in response to political tensions....
...In 2019, Hiro Mizuno (pictured), the former head of the world’s largest pension fund, stopped lending out securities from the Japanese scheme because he believed shorting was antithetical to his mission...
...Global banks, which for decades have homed in on Hong Kong as the headquarters for their Asia-Pacific ex-Japan operations, are struggling to fill the ranks or attract talent to the city....
...Fund manager BlackRock and CPP Investments, Canada’s largest pension fund, co-led a $187m investment in the company, along with existing backers....
...The latest pandemic travel trend In February, Mark Machin, head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, took a break from running the country’s largest pension fund and the blistering Ontario winter...
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