AsianInvestor's April 2012 edition is now online
REGULARS
4 Up front
Hong Kong Hospital Authority RFP; GPIF's emerging-markets plans; Bradesco AM expands; and more
13 Up front: on the move
BlackRock's new Asia-Pac head of strategy; New CIO at Korea GEPS
14 Operations manager
Roger Chang, Capital Securities & Investment Trust
15 Regulatory roundup
Foreign hedge funds to raise RMB in China; Asean secondary listings to be expedited
16 Fund flows
A reduction of tensions in the developed world has led to clear signs of flows into Asian funds
18 Q&A
James Hughes, HSBC Insurance
FEATURES
20 Destination: Asia
Super-sized asset owners around the world are slowly re-allocating investments to Asia ex-Japan
24 Korea debates foreign AMs
The abysmal experience with international equity funds in 2008 continues to haunt foreign fund houses
26 Korea Awards 2012
Photographs from our dinner and write-ups of the winners from our second annual Korea Awards
46 Taiwanese investors' knight in shining armour
New regulation is designed to shield investors in Taiwan, but industry players wonder if it goes too far
48 Another four years of cross-strait stability
AsianInvestor's annual Taiwan investor forum brings together investors and fund managers to discuss regional opportunities
50 Islamic funds go international
Sharia fund managers are setting up Ucits structures with an eye on boosting demand from investors
ALTERNATIVE INVESTOR
54 Assets kept apart from the crowd
From managed accounts to 'funds of one', investors are negotiating harder with hedge funds to safeguard their assets
56 China still hot property
When it comes to raising assets for investing in Asian real estate, investors remain most focused on China opportunities
64 Alternative Q&A
Ambrish Baisiwala, Portman Holdings
66 Alternative roundup
China NSSF to add PE investment; Henderson and Tantallon close; Wuzhu Asia Partners sets up; and more
ROUNDTABLES
40 Securities lending's promising future
Discussing resilience among Asia's securities-lending markets, growing demand for collateral and regulators' desire to improve financial market infrastructure
58 Compliance challenges for alternatives managers
Hedge-fund and private-equity executives debate the big current issues in global and Asian regulation
WITH THIS ISSUE
Trading Asian equities: Smaller, cheaper, faster
A supplement to our April edition explores the world of electronic trading, facilitation, commissions, aggregation of liquidity, and stock exchanges