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Finding Value in Asian Hedge Funds
The Asian hedge fund industry has grown rapidly over the past 12 months, fuelled by bullish conditions across the region and a healthy inflow of funds from around the world. [download pdf]
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The Future of Hedge Fund Investing
It increasingly appears that some investors, regulators and gatekeepers have reservations about whether the skill set within the hedge fund industry can meet the needs of institutional investors. Yet according to some market players, such as Dawnay, Day Walden, this isn't in doubt. [download pdf]
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Maximising Client Returns in 2007
With rapid growth in the structured products market in Australia, opportunities to broaden distribution in the retail space are continuing to increase. [download pdf]
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Hedge Fund Roundtable
In late September, Pacific Prospect - with the kind support of John Currie of Henry Davis York Lawyers - gathered a panel of leading practitioners from the Australian hedge fund industry. Drawn together from right across the industry, they shared their views on new manager and investment strategies, general threats and opportunities, and the overarching need to continue to educate investors and regulators to enable the continued, positive development of the industry. [download pdf]
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Maximising Your Engagement of Structured Products in Korea
Growing opportunities for new products, a more conducive regulatory environment and market-led education will offer distributors and investors new ways to maximise their engagement of structured products in Korea - according to leading structurers and other participants at our 2nd annual Korean Structured Products Forum. [download pdf]
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Innovative Investor Roundtable
In early August, Pacific Prospect gathered a panel of leading practitioners from the Australian structured products market at the Reuters offices in Sydney. Drawn from the product manufacturing, investment banking, adviser, ratings, research and legal fields, they shared their views on trends in this fast-growing segment of the financial markets and the likely developments going forward. [download pdf]
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Reinvigorating the Equity-Linked Market
Despite the dampening effect on India's equity-linked market of the May 2006 correction in stock prices, the fundamentals of the economy and investor appetite both remain strong. [download pdf]
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Greater Access to India
With investors and intermediaries looking to make as much money as possible from India's growth story, attention is focused on opportunities for greater market access. [download pdf]
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Maximising Your Engagement of Structured Products in China as Reforms Gathers Pace
Following the staggering pace of the development of structured products across Asia, attention has quickly turned to the potential of the China market. Yet to take advantage of this as the regulatory landscape becomes ever-more conducive to selling products both onshore and offshore, investors and distributors must first understand what can be sold, and how best to sell it. [download pdf]
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Evolution of Structured Products in China
The rapid pace of financial reform in China is creating unprecedented and lucrative opportunities for the development of structured products for onshore investors. [download pdf]
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The Future for Structured Credit in Japan
The pace of growth in structured products across Asia is providing a welcome impetus for the evolution of the Japanese market, according to leading market players at the Japan Structured Products Forum 2006. [download pdf]
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Structured Credit Roundtable
In late March, Pacific Prospect organised a roundtable discussion, hosted by Markit Group, to bring together a panel of leading credit traders, structurers, information providers and other industry professionals to analyse how various regulatory, accounting and policy changes will affect the appetite for structured credit in Japan. [download pdf]
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Market Development
A generally more conservative investment culture has meant the Japanese market has been slower to embrace innovation in structured products than elsewhere in Asia. [download pdf]
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Growing Demand
Growth in demand for collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) in Japan over the past 12 to 18 months suggests an increasing appetite for structured credit. At the same time, the emergence of new features on deals has paved the way for further innovation in 2006. [download pdf]
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