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Analysis
27 Oct 2026
Korea Investment Trust Management is preparing about $5 million of proprietary capital for a 30-stock China and global semiconductor ETF listed in Hong Kong and run by China Universal. Mainland access through ETF Connect remains an eligibility question, not a completed distribution channel.
Analysis
23 Oct 2026
18 senior appointments across Asia-Pacific private banking, asset management and institutional capital this week, compiled from the InvestIQ Asia APAC Appointments Bulletin.
Asset Owners
14 Oct 2026
Seviora Holdings, Temasek’s primary asset-management platform, will integrate Azalea Investment Management, SeaTown Holdings International and Seviora Capital under one operating model and brand from 1 January 2027. The combined platform manages approximately US$76 billion.
Asset Owners
5 Oct 2026
South Korean authorities are leaning toward retaining the 70 per cent cap on risky assets in retirement pensions. Market volatility has slowed a reform push that had aimed to give savers more room. For managers, the near-term product and allocation story stays inside the existing framework.
Opinion
5 Oct 2026
Vietnam’s stock-market status upgrade is opening the door to a larger fund-management industry. The State Securities Commission and local industry voices are stressing the other side of that door: stronger products, governance, risk management and a deeper institutional investor base. Assets have grown fast. Structure has not fully caught up.
Opinion
4 Sep 2026
Mid-year earnings disclosures from top-tier asset managers reveal a stark operational divide. As wealth intermediaries demand cheaper passive tranches and private debt access, legacy fee structures are facing an unprecedented squeeze.
Opinion
28 Aug 2026
Our proprietary policy alignment review synthesises a highly synchronized wave of monetary interventions and persistent inflation metrics to provide global asset managers with explicit cross-border duration risk markers.
Opinion
28 Aug 2026
As global investment managers deploy unified risk engines to satisfy look-through compliance metrics, smaller domestic firms face immediate structural layout disadvantages.
Opinion
26 Aug 2026
As Franklin Templeton partners with HashKey Exchange to distribute tokenised treasury fund wrappers across Asia, investment managers misprice the structural friction of on-chain secondary liquidity platforms.
Opinion
25 Aug 2026
Global asset management outlooks challenge consensus warnings regarding technology sector debt capacity, exposing robust fundamental pillars that insulate investment-grade corporate bond channels.
Opinion
24 Aug 2026
Global asset management frameworks challenge the legacy balanced portfolio model, urging institutional investors to aggressively target shorter durations and floating-rate credit to survive central bank data dependence.
Opinion
21 Aug 2026
An unprecedented structural alliance between top-tier tech architecture and the world's largest credit managers is redefining alternative asset classes. The sudden capital mobilisation reveals an intense infrastructure allocation gap across institutional portfolios.
Opinion
20 Aug 2026
The systemic reliance on historical correlation datasets creates severe capital exposure for global portfolios. Traditional diversification formulas fracture completely during macro shocks, demanding a shift to multi-dimensional analytics.
Asset Owners
19 Aug 2026
The central bank has launched a targeted package of fiscal and structural incentives engineered to protect Singapore's value proposition. The measures seek to aggressively anchor alternative investment activities amid sharpening regional competition.
Opinion
19 Aug 2026
Global asset managers operating across the Asia-Pacific territory must abandon legacy index-tied bond models to deliver resilient absolute alpha. Untethering asset management platforms from standard public benchmarks emerges as the primary fiduciary mandate required to insulate institutional portfolios from accelerating macroeconomic cross-currents and sovereign credit volatility.
Asset Owners
19 Aug 2026
The National Financial Regulatory Administration has formally authorised mainland Chinese insurers to deploy long-duration retirement assets into Hong Kong-listed exchange-traded funds. The programmatic policy shift leverages established cross-border trading infrastructure to unlock massive institutional liquidity pools and modernise state pension asset allocation frameworks across the Greater Bay Area.
Asset Owners
16 Aug 2026
Indonesia's newly established sovereign wealth fund has formulated a strategic capital deployment targeting premier global alternative managers. The programmatic mandate structure distributes an average of five hundred million dollars per manager, focusing strictly on high-reputation partners to lock down continuous portfolio liquidity across Southeast Asian state accounts.
Opinion
14 Aug 2026
Global asset managers operating across Asia-Pacific must abandon traditional benchmark-bound fixed income models to deliver resilient, non-correlated yield structures for regional institutional portfolios.
Opinion
13 Aug 2026
Boutique and large-scale investment houses must secure seasoned private banking talent to navigate the complex multi-asset demands of Asian wealth networks.
Opinion
12 Aug 2026
Boutique investment houses across Asia must move past traditional relationship-driven asset distribution and build scalable systematic infrastructure to capture institutional mandate flows.
Opinion
11 Aug 2026
The asset management industry must abandon ad-hoc boutique sustainability structures and embrace harmonised concessional capital models to bridge the regional climate gap.
Opinion
10 Aug 2026
The systematic removal of over six hundred small-cap companies from the benchmark Tokyo Stock Price Index acts as an unprecedented regulatory catalyst, forcing regional asset managers to abandon passive index tracking and deploy aggressive corporate governance strategies to unlock trapped equity value.
Private Wealth
6 Aug 2026
Targeting institutional-grade real-world asset tokenization, Nomura’s digital asset arm has backed ZIGChain to construct a specialized onchain financial infrastructure for alternative investments.
Private Wealth
5 Aug 2026
Allianz Global Investors expands its regional footprint through a landmark acquisition and strategic distribution partnership with UOB Group, creating a premier investment platform across South-East Asia.
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