Asian pension funds picking up on smart beta

Asia-Pacific pension funds are increasingly looking at how they can incorporate smart beta methodologies within their portfolio structure. The concept is relatively new to Asia but is well established in the US and Europe. US and European pension funds and sovereigns from the Nordic bloc have been at the forefront of adopting more passive factor-based strategies to better match expected returns from equity and fixed income allocations. In Asia, Japan’s Government Pension Investm…