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Asia's scramble for dividends gets moving

To help buoy returns, managers of large pools of money are looking to dividend-paying stocks with manageable volatility

Andy Mukherjee

Published Sat, Aug 13, 2016 · 5:50 am
ROOM TO GROW: In developing Asian countries, a low proportion of superannuation funds is invested in equities so there is greater scope to do more. In Thailand, for example, 17 per cent of the top pension fund's assets are in stocks compared with 61 per cent in Hong Kong, according to OECD data.

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HOW do you stop life insurers and pension funds from drowning in cash? Let them float on a thicker cushion of equity.

Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission did just that recently when it lowered the risk-based capital requirement for insurers. The change, combined with an upcoming tweak in pension funds' investment mandate, could help the local stock market attract between US$25 billion and US$35 billion over the next five years, according to Credit Suisse. That's a lot, considering that...

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