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...find a venture-capital community like the one we have in America anywhere in the world, except for, some people would argue, Israel. It's important to look at basically how American this industry is. You cannot duplicate this. Other countries have tried. That said, a number of European pension funds have just gained the right to invest in these kinds of funds, and there is great interest in Scandinavia, Australia and Singapore...
...just now starting to favor a very, very strong set of policies that I believe will ripen the environment for venture-backed start-ups. Until about a year ago, Japan outlawed stock options, which is a significant means of compensation in many young companies. They weren't legal. Pension plans could not invest in private equity in Japan...
HEESEN: By contrast, in the U.S. public and private pension funds make up about 43% of our investors...
...ELECTED. KATSUYA OKADA, 50, to the presidency of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition party; in Tokyo. Former leader Naoto Kan resigned earlier this month after being implicated in Japan's ongoing pension-payment scandal. Formerly the party's secretary-general, Okada accepted the post reluctantly after other prominent party members declined, saying that it "may be my fate" to lead...
...hedge funds globally returned an estimated 13%, with a projection to do the same this year. That's more than double the projected return for equities. "We're looking for solid returns," says Malcolm Gray, finance director of Railpen Investments, the investment arm of Britain's Railways Pension scheme, which last month said it would invest $1.1 billion in hedge funds. "We think the price of bonds is too high; we're worried about the price-earnings ratios of equities. [With hedge funds] we want to get some absolute income in." Yet even though the interest of big institutional funds...