AsianInvestor magazine’s July edition now online
JULY 2016
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IN THIS MONTH'S ISSUE:Regulars
04 On the move: GF International hires Chen Hao as CIO; Pictet hires Dominique Jooris from Goldman Sachs to head Southeast Asia; Peter Krismer moves from BSI to Swiss International
10 Regulatory Analysis: Singapore is attracting Chinese asset managers, while foreign funds are leapfrogging Hong Kong into China
12 Data Centre: North Asia’s life insurers face a variety of challenges to their performance
Asset Owners
Q&A: Heman Wong, executive director of Hong Kong's Hospital Authority Provident Fund Scheme
16 AI300: Our annual ranking of the region’s top institutional investors by assets. Total AUM: $35 trillion
36 Asian Investment Summit: investing in a less constrained manner
38 News: Indonesia sovereign fund excites funds; sovereigns boost alternatives by 50%
Distributors
Roboflop: Automated advisers may struggle to dislodge wealth management bank providers in Asia
44 Q&A: Louis Chang, head of wealth management, E.Sun Bank
46 Fund supermarkets: Online fund distribution haven’t flourished outside China. Encouraging IFAs could help
50 News: Singapore seeks fintech sandbox; China urged to leave equity market alone; wealth industry’s tech lag
Fund Managers
China’s perilous appeal: MSCI’s decision not to add A-shares to its index makes sense, but the country offers rewards for the willing
58 Industry executive survey: capital flows should rise into and out of China, and to a lesser extent Asia
66 Alternatives Q&A: Brian Lim, partner and head of emerging markets, Pantheon
70 ETF Summit: speakers expressed optimism over the proliferation of ETFs within Asia
72 Trading and execution survey: investors reveal their key expectations of brokerages
78 Recognising Korea’s leading investors: AsianInvestor conducted its sixth annual awards dinner for the leading asset owners and fund managers in the North Asia country
80 News: US gains RQFII quota despite tensions; Jupiter eyes Thailand; Savills IM seeks China office
82 Bookend
And The Weak Suffer What They Must? by Varis Varoufakis