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February 2010
Selling solutions The heads of large, global asset-management companies increasingly speak not of product, but of solutions. Although 'solutions' is a perennial buzzword, it has gained currency even as institutional investors look for products beyond actively managed, commingled ...

December 2009
The gong of the dong The events of September 2008 surrounding decisions taken by US authorities concerning Lehman Brothers, AIG and Tarp are the fulcrum of the credit crisis. This year, world governments led by Washington and Beijing prevented the possibility of a 1930s Great ...

November 2009
Back to what? There is irony in our cover story's argument that exchange-traded funds won't become a force in Asia without a lot of innovation.Here you have products that are meant to be as vanilla as they come: cheap, transparent, obvious beta – the perfect solution for all you ...

October 2009
Too good to be true? When meeting people in Hong Kong or Singapore or China, I see a glazed expression of wonderment on many faces. The worst economic crisis has laid the world’s greatest financial institutions prone and so naturally in Asia the impact has been...it's been...well,neve...

September 2009
A year without Lehman This month marks the anniversary of Lehman Brothers' 15 September bankruptcy.Of all the institutions that failed or required government support in 2008, only Lehman's demise has become shorthand for the global financial crisis. For example, I recently visited an ...

July 2009
Unfinished business The AI200, our annual ranking of institutional assets in Asia ex-Japan, tells an interesting story this year: the region's indigenous pools of wealth remain intact. Lots of people asume Asian investors continue to hold large quantities of cash. Now you can see it ...

June 2009
A phony spring Walking the streets of Manhattan to meet with bond portfolio managers in mid-May proved incongruous. I had gone there expecting tales of woe, along the lines I had experienced during my previous visit in November 2008.But no. Since the beginning of March, both credit ...

May 2009
Green shoots and ladders Declarations by policy leaders on the state of the global economy resemble the children's game Chutes and Ladders.Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke see signs of 'green shoots' taking hold. We climb a rung. Banks have announced nearly $13 billion of first-quarter ...

April 2009
Think twice about hedge funds Hedge funds have gotten a bad wrap in this crisis. This magazine was early in pointing out their vulnerabilities such as counterparty exposures, liquidity mis-matches and inattention to risk management. We have been critical of the proliferation of ...

March 2009
Complacency in Chindia This edition of AsianInvestor looks at the state of the assetmanagement industry in China and India, the world's biggest emerging markets and also the economies with the most economic growth. Indeed, these two countries are the only significant economies ...

February 2009
Thinking through recession When Auguste Rodin began to work on the first casts of Le Penseur in the 1880s, he intended it to symbolize Dante sitting atop the gates of Hell, pondering the misery described in his Divine Comedy.This month's cover has The Thinker brooding over his ...

December 2008
The long year For many people – investors, traders, bankers, issuers – 2008 can't end soon enough. They would like to close the books as quickly as possible and write a line beneath an awful year. But 2008, with its bankruptcies, market volatility and forced selling, is not so easily ...

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