AsianInvestor's June 2012 edition now online

On the move
Mark Konyn joins Cathay Conning; Ken Sue switches to Coutts from HSBC: Jane Leung succeeds Nick Good at iShares

8 Regulatory Roundup
New Reit and infrastructure rules in Thailand; Chinese insurers can buy riskier debt; China mulls letting in hedge funds; Hong Kong dark pool applications

10 Data Centre
Latin America receives strong fund flows at the expense of Asia

92 Bookend
1493, by Charles Mann

Asset Owners
Asakawa and the Japanese pension debacle
The AIJ scandal has created an opportunity for Japan’s regulators to fix the country’s ailing retirement system. But will they do so?

16 Q&A with Shunichi Kubo of Nihon Keizai Shumbun Pension Fund

22 Sovereign capital on the diversification trail

24 Taiwan’s LPF mandate “unrealistic”, NCSSF in private-equity and SOE push; Asian SWFs breaking size records

Distributors
A new channel for distribution
It’s early days for independent financial advisers in China, but they offer a tantalising new channel apart from banks

28 Julius Baer forecasts private bank success; private investment banking the way forward, says Credit Suisse; asset managers boosting focus on private banks