August 2017

14Aug

HSBC fund arm eyes mainland China pension market, new Silk Road projects

HSBC Global Asset Management is planning to expand into more Asian markets with a focus on pension fund management and infrastructure investments arising from Beijing’s new Silk Road projects, according to the regional head of the company. “We would like to expand into new markets in Asia where we have achieve double digit year-on-year growth in terms of assets under distribution over the last three years,” said Pedro Bastos, chief executive of Hong Kong and regional head of Asia-Pacific, HSBC...

August 14, 2017
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02Aug

China is stepping up reform of private pension market

Themed Opportunities and Challenges of Pension Management: Reform and Globalisation, the event brought together a roster of market practitioners to gather their views on developments in the global pension industry and investment trends. The first keynote address at the event was delivered by Wang Zhongmin, vice chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund (NSSF). Mr. Wang said the pension assets overseen by the NSSF are made up of two components – the fundamental pension fund and the supplementary Social...

August 2, 2017
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July 2017

21Jul

China. Principal links up CCB to design Pension Plan

Global financial investment management company Principal Financial Group Inc has partnered with China Construction Bank to seek opportunities in the country's huge but developing pensions market, which is currently worth more than $700 billion. Daniel Houston, chairman and CEO of Principal Financial Group, said his company had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with CCB for a potential pension partnership in China and the two sides would assess what role the Iowa-based company would play. "We have great confidence in the nation's...

July 21, 2017
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June 2017

27Jun

China’s Pension Gap Is Growing as Aging Becomes Economic Risk

It's no secret that China is an aging society facing a growing pensions bill. Just how much of that bill is unfunded seems to be one though. It's an increasingly urgent question, as nearly a third of the inhabitants of the world's most populous country will be over 60 years old by 2050, according to United Nations data. By 2015, the pension of each retired resident was borne by the contributions of fewer than three wage-earners, government estimates show. When China...

June 27, 2017
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May 2017

31May

China’s pension fund to join the new Silk Road investment spree

China’s 2 trillion yuan (US$290 billion) national pension fund will hop onto the country’s new Silk Road bandwagon, joining other state-backed institutions to seek lucrative deals along the route. Wang Zhongmin, a vice-chairman of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF), said the fund would take a go-slow and low-key approach, but he conceded that a bag of investment deals are in the pipeline. “We will do investments along the route,” he told the South China Morning Post . “We are resolute...

May 31, 2017
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25May

AMP bucks the trend with China pension push

AMP chief executive Craig Meller let the two executives running his China joint ventures make the opening presentations at the company's strategy day on Thursday. This was mostly out of courtesy to his guests, which is an important part of doing business with China, rather than a subtle signal that China will take precedence over the Australian businesses. China is an important growth engine for AMP but is still a relatively small part of the company, which has plenty of work...

May 25, 2017
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11May

China. AMAC calls for development of third-pillar pension products

The Asset Management Association of China (AMAC) is calling on Chinese authorities to facilitate the development of private pension schemes – the third pillar in a pension structure – to mitigate mounting financial pressure on the country’s retirement system. AMAC Chairman Hong Lei says China’s pension system became more comprehensive with the establishment of the enterprise annuity (EA) system in 2004, a supplemental defined-contribution (DC) retirement plan for Chinese enterprises – the second pillar, along with the occupational annuity (OA)...

May 11, 2017
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April 2017

26Apr

China pension fund revenue grows 25 percent in first quarter: Xinhua

Chinese pension funds drew 970.8 billion yuan ($141.06 billion) in revenue in the first quarter, an increase of 25.4 percent from the same period last year, state news agency Xinhua quoted the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as saying. Gross expenditures of the funds reached 808.5 billion yuan, up 22.9 percent from last year, and the pension funds' account balance stood at over 4 trillion yuan at the end of March, it said. China is home to more than...

April 26, 2017
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