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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 ...

November 2008
Revisiting assumptions Some of the gloom in London and New York is rubbing off on investment managers in Asia. Trust has yet to return to credit markets. Asset classes are being massively sold off.Institutional investors risk meeting liabilities, pensioners risk penury. America is ...

October 2008
Asian capital will call the shots At a time when the United States administration and Congress are gripped in a feverish effort to legislate the socialization of American finance, the big story in China is the imminent launch of its third manned space mission, the highlight of which ...

September 2008
In the hot seat Yes, that is an aggressive image on our cover this month. Just looking at it makes you sweat and think of final wishes: to embrace a loved one for the last time, perhaps, or to enjoy a cigarette, before they bring the blindfold.For investors, asset managers and ...

July/August, 2008
Turning point It's easy to get caught up in the global finance industry's woes – particularly if you work for an institution suffering from write-offs, plunging share prices and forced selling.And with the liquidity crisis leaks into the real economy, and inflation threatening ...

June, 2008
Buy low, sell high The build-up of Asian savings and reserves has led to a huge, cumbersome exposure to US financial assets. Diversification makes sense but can only go so far. When the Chinese central bank sees reserves rise by $600 billion in one year, to take but one example, ...

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