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Sovereign Selectivity: Asia Exposure and Private-Market Deployment

Asset Owners

12 Oct 2026

Sovereign Selectivity: Asia Exposure and Private-Market Deployment

Mubadala has restated its intention to deploy approximately $39 billion annually while raising its Asia portfolio weight. GIC has moved to a refreshed investment framework organised by return drivers and is expanding hedge-fund allocations. Both moves point to greater selectivity rather than broad beta expansion.

Hong Kong is leading Deutsche’s emerging-markets private bank. Mainland-linked demand is still in the room.

Private Wealth

23 Sep 2026

Hong Kong is leading Deutsche’s emerging-markets private bank. Mainland-linked demand is still in the room.

Marco Pagliara, head of emerging markets at Deutsche Bank Private Bank, said this week that Hong Kong has been the best-performing region in that franchise in 2026, with visible activity in high-end real estate that often carries a Chinese client link. South-east Asia is running close behind. The investment question is where UHNW liquidity and leverage are being put to work.

Mainland Wealth Is Buying Overseas Multi-Asset Through the Licensed Door

Private Wealth

17 Sep 2026

Mainland Wealth Is Buying Overseas Multi-Asset Through the Licensed Door

Pictet’s Hong Kong-domiciled Strategic Income Fund has grown to $5.1 billion from $1.6 billion at the start of 2026. About 60 per cent of that book arrived from mainland China through the Mutual Recognition of Funds channel. The investment mix in the August note included US Treasuries, gold, and listed US technology.

Mainland Insurance Funds Unleash Multi-Billion Dollar Southbound ETF Capital Flows via New Connect Pipeline

Asset Owners

19 Aug 2026

Mainland Insurance Funds Unleash Multi-Billion Dollar Southbound ETF Capital Flows via New Connect Pipeline

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.

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