Asian Retirement Markets 2020
Reshaping the Silver Market
Grow Retirement Assets in Asia
- Explore the outlook for pension funds’ outsourcing plans amid persistent insourcing challenges
- Learn how asset managers can meet the evolving needs of their pension clients
- Understand the current status of digitalization adoption and details surrounding pension schemes’ initiatives
- Analyze comprehensive sizing of Asia’s retirement market and review an in-depth analysis of 11 different markets across Asia
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Summary
Given the region’s fast-aging population, opportunities are present for asset managers to offer unique propositions to pension funds or the under-developed third pillar. Explore the current state of the retirement industry in Australia, Japan, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia and assess product development and outsourcing opportunities for external asset managers, from the retail and institutional perspectives.
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Della Lin, CFA
Senior Analyst
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Della Lin, CFA
Senior Analyst
As a senior analyst out of the Singapore office, Della leads the Asian retirement research and contributes both quantitative and qualitative analysis to various Cerulli reports and Edge editions. Della also specializes in building the retail and institutional analysis for the Taiwanese, Korean, and Australasia markets.
Prior to joining Cerulli, she was a research analyst in a market intelligence firm, where she was responsible for building the Australian market data with a focus on alternative assets.
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Jaslyn Ong
Analyst
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Jaslyn Ong
Analyst
Jaslyn leads the research for two of Cerulli’s annual reports: The Cerulli Report—Asset Management in Southeast Asia and The Cerulli Report—Institutional Asset Management in Asia. She also contributes to The Cerulli Edge—Asian Monthly Product Trends and generates quantitative analysis to support strategic consulting engagements. Specifically, Jaslyn covers the asset management markets of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.
Prior to Cerulli, Jaslyn was with the Asia Pacific asset management research team at PwC. Prior to that, she worked briefly with Prudential as a financial consultant during her penultimate years of university.
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Pension funds are seeking more holistic and collaborative services from asset managers amid greater insourcing and fee pressure. This is a positive sign for institutional asset managers.
At the same time, on the retail front, banks are still the primary channel managers use to promote their retirement strategies and digital initiatives are being introduced at varied paces to retail investors. Much like what’s happening elsewhere in the world, these initiatives have common aims of streamlining operational processes, enhancing user experience, lowering operational and investment costs, and achieving wider outreach. Some managers have also partnered with fintech firms to build robo-advisory solutions. Success is still early to measure, but the push to a digital future is expected to bring many benefits.
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