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1. Strategies for Investing in Alternative Assets
sophisticated hedge fund and credit
short-term managers emerging in the
region, bringing us more investment
opportunities.
The private equity market is still
developing. There are few managers
who have at least ten years experience,
mostly in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong
Kong. Thus private equity opportunities
Our
are more reliable in these places. For at
least five years we never considered
investing in the Asian private equity
Interview with: Yoshi Kiguchi, Chief markets, but we have now started to, to
Investment Officer, Okayama Metal take advantage of its growth.
pension
& Machinery Pension Fund
How do you fit alternative assets
into your portfolio? What
“We believe alternative investments investment opportunities could you
counteract a low interest rate and low point investors to?
fund
expected return market,” says Yoshi
Kiguchi, Chief Investment Officer, Our pension fund is very positive
Okayama Metal & Machinery Pension towards alternative investments. Around
Fund. “Around 70 per cent of our fund 70 per cent of our fund focuses on
focuses on alternative assets, with 30 alternative assets, with 30 per cent in
is very
per cent in traditional assets,” he adds. traditional assets. We believe
alternative investments counteract a low
A speaker at the marcus evans APAC interest rate and low expected return
Investments Summit 2013, in Macao, market.
China, 10 - 12 April, Kiguchi gives us his
take on generating attractive returns in
the alternatives space.
We consider corporate debt strategies to
be a promising area, as well as
corporate structure arbitrage type of
positive
Why are many Japanese pension investments. That is an excellent hedge
funds focused on Asian assets? fund category. Leveraged buyout type
Asia is a very reliable market for us to
invest in right now. The population of
of private equities and distressed assets
are also attractive and produce high
returns for us. We make sure to find
towards
the region is growing and so is domestic sophisticated managers to take
consumption. We expect steady growth advantage of these opportunities. It is
for the next decade or so in India,
China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, as
well as possibly Vietnam and the
important to meet and communicate
with managers directly, to see what
experiences and capabilities they have.
alternative
Philippines. Japan is still a terrible
market. Although it has improved in How do you ensure you fund meets
recent months, we find that some
Pacific countries give us much better
returns.
regulatory requirements?
The Japanese market is highly regulated
investments
and for us to meet the requirements, we
What alternative investments would have to do enough due diligence before
counteract sovereign risk? hiring alternative investment managers.
However, some managers do not want
The hedge fund market in Asia is still to disclose much. We do not need to
developing and needs more liquidity and know all the details. We just need
variety for trading markets. In Greater enough information to understand what
China, many hedge fund managers are kind of risk control and market
experiencing tough times and that kind procedures they have in place, so a
of experience is helping them polish level of back office transparency is
their strategies. There are many necessary for us to meet requirements.

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