Asia

JAPAN - Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P Japan 500, a broadly representative index covering approximately 88% of the Japanese equity market, under an alliance with Toyo Keizai.

ASIA/PACIFIC - It is only relatively recently that social security reform has emerged as an important public policy concern in many countries in Asia and the Pacific, according to Professor Mukul Asher of the National University of Singapore in a new...

JAPAN - Schroder Investment Management believes that now is the worst time to give up on Japan.

JAPAN - Japanese equities will not recover their value unless the country carries out structural reform on the economy, Standard Life Investments UK claims.

JAPAN - August belonged to the Japan long/short managers.

UK/INDIA - Prudential is to transfer around 850 jobs from its pensions customer contact centre in Reading to India.

JAPAN - Recovery in the Japanese stock market is dependent on its government taking steps to curb deflation, according to Britannic Asset Management.

US/JAPAN -The world's biggest pension fund CalPERS has earmarked US$200m for a new Japan fund at a time when opinion over the country's ailing economy is divided.

UK/JAPAN - Neptune Investment Management is expanding its investment team and has appointed William May as head of Japanese equities, and Rob Burnett as investment analyst.  

JAPAN - Investment performance firm MSCI has started an index focussed solely on the Japanese market's Osaka Securities Exchange.