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...Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the German Marshall Fund, said the “greatest risk of a direct US-China military confrontation today is at Second Thomas Shoal”....
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...Mark Swindell, chief executive of rosco Rock Rail, said the industry had brought billions of pounds of pension fund and other institutional investors’ money into the railway industry....
...The main US federal government pension fund is to exclude China- and Hong Kong-listed stocks on the recommendation of its adviser, which cited the rising tensions between the world’s two largest economies...
...It has appointed Ivan Power, a 20-year Macquarie Group veteran, to run the fund. Power said Australia could offer a big pool of private capital, including large pension funds....
...Last month China’s coast guard boarded a Taiwanese tourist boat near the Taipei-run island of Kinmen....
...Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund — one of the world’s most powerful investors — is overhauling the way it chooses active managers, in a bid to secure the higher returns needed to support a rapidly...
...Svyrydenko said she hoped the EU would approve support in February and deliver the funds before the end of March. But she also said this would not be enough....
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...On the one side is the stretch to institutions: sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurers looking for fast, low-cost access to markets....
...At the same time, the governing boards of a growing number of active institutional investors, including US pension funds, have mandated “ex-China” approaches....
...UK pension fund the Universities Superannuation Scheme, one of the biggest investors in Thames Water, has slashed the value of its stake by almost two-thirds....
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