AsianInvestor carried out a webcast with two senior Northern Trust executives to examine the impact of post-crisis regulatory reform on institutional investors in Asia Pacific.
This is despite a continuing tough environment for fundraising, fiercer competition and stricter due diligence by investors, finds a State Street/Preqin survey.
Asian institutions are looking at new approaches to investing including boosting alternatives holdings to increase returns, but just 4% plan to outsource more in the next year, finds Natixis GAM.
Investec Asset Management’s new head of Asia institutional business, Tobie van Heerden, is mandated to develop relationships with top 30 asset owners in Asia ex-Japan.
A survey of Asian institutional investors by Greenwich Associates shows they're diversifying their portfolios as asset sizes grow, AsianInvestor's recent investment summit heard.
A Fidelity and Greenwich Associates’ survey of Asian and European institutional funds reveals a huge discrepancy in how they use benchmarks to gain access to Asian assets.