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The answer is in the soil, it seems. Acquiring land may be a rewarding answer for investors.
Institutional investors need to reorganise their investment processes around new ways to access managers, extend time-horizons and measure risk, says Stanford’s Ashby Monk.
Percival Stanion, global head of multi-asset portfolios at Baring Asset Management, says investors are waiting for emerging-market monetary easing and more certainty in Europe.
The benevolence of Asia's wealthy could be directed to improve economic and social conditions, but the entrepreneurial source of their fortune may lead to a different approach ...
The new fund is evidence of increased allocation to infrastructure by pension funds, says Anthony Fasso, CEO of AMP Capital International.
Home markets no longer provide the ability to meet target returns, but investing in Asia creates new complexities, says Calpers CIO Joe Dear.
China Southern’s Hong Kong subsidiary is selling a new fund series to European investors eager to gain RMB and China-themed exposure, in a step towards overseas expansion.
Investors in Latin America are buying Asia investment products, but it’s Western, not Asian, fund managers winning assets, says Strategic Insight.
The buy-side trading platform expects to agree at least one alliance with a traditional exchange in Asia in 2012. Singapore's bourse is a likely contender, say traders.
Delegates from around Asia joined AsianInvestor and FinanceAsia for our inaugural summit on commodities. Here we feature a gallery of photos from the event.
Not enough investment is going towards future commodities supply, but global uncertainty is hitting the average price of natural resource stocks, argues Robeco in a white paper.
Hong Kong SFC chief Ashley Alder says there has been a radical change in regulatory attitude since the 2008 crisis, meaning global industry cooperation is now key.
Investors are captivated by fear of default contagion, driving market liquidity to determine sovereign solvency. This is wrong, but there is reason for optimism, says Western ...
As the only market of sufficient size, China will be called upon to support institutional investor needs for currency and credit diversification amid crises in the US and Europe.
It’s not surprising that Asian investors are focusing on absolute return and long-term macro themes given the present uncertainty, says Henk Grootveld of Robeco.