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Analysis
8 Oct 2026
Southeast Asian institutional allocators are accelerating capital deployments into regional private credit structures, driven by evolving central bank regulatory guidelines and demand for floating-rate yield buffers.
Opinion
2 Oct 2026
The Bank of Japan’s Summary of Opinions from the September meeting, released around 1 October, shows board members debating a faster path of normalisation after the policy rate reached 1.25 per cent, the highest since 1995. For Japanese asset owners the practical question is no longer whether domestic bonds exist as an option. It is whether rising JGB yields and a more active BoJ make home-market fixed income competitive enough to matter inside existing allocation bands.
Asset Owners
23 Sep 2026
Korea’s National Pension Service is seeking a licence to invest in Indian government securities under SEBI’s lighter compliance route for low-risk foreign investors such as pensions and sovereign funds. Public reporting describes the application as advanced and among the first from a large global pension under that window. A dedicated G-sec channel would sit beside existing India equity exposure via offshore funds.
Opinion
22 Sep 2026
For liability-driven insurance general accounts, elevated government-bond yields still support an income lock-in case, while tight credit spreads argue for selectivity rather than blanket carry. Thematic equity, including Asia supply-chain and technology exposure, remains a sized sleeve, not a substitute for the cash-flow core.
Opinion
17 Sep 2026
UBS GWM’s mid-2026 Asia note put Asia investment-grade all-in yields near 5.3 per cent and a 93 basis-point pick-up over same-tenor US Treasuries, against 64 basis points for US IG. Asia high-yield dollar paper has returned 4.3 per cent year to date against 1.8 per cent for US peers, Bloomberg data compiled by The Business Times show. The allocation question is carry and selection, not a spread-tightening thesis.
Asset Owners
16 Sep 2026
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund continues to operate a four-box listed policy mix, with alternatives limited to 5 per cent inside those boxes. Korea’s National Pension Service has written a 14 per cent alternatives allocation, including private debt, into its 2026 plan. The two funds sit in the same regional coverage universe. Their mandates do not.
Opinion
15 Sep 2026
Nippon Life and Japan Post Insurance still run enormous yen bond books against multi-decade policy liabilities. Public filings show the duration gap is real and the private-credit rotation is underway. They do not show a concealed solvency crisis or an unprecedented blow-out in mismatch.
Private Wealth
15 Sep 2026
Competition for Pan-Asian private-wealth assets is shifting from booking centre to a narrower test: whether an onshore bond can be pledged for liquidity inside the home market. Singapore has the region’s deepest published collateral stack. That is not the same thing as a live, multi-bank SGX repo network.
Asset Owners
11 Sep 2026
A targeted reallocation strategy across Southeast Asia's premier state retirement systems points to an onshore credit shift. Leading fund custodians are locking in local currency yield premiums to hedge against global currency swings.
Asset Owners
28 Aug 2026
Confronted with rigid structural boundaries under standard allocation models, the Government Pension Fund of Thailand designs an open-architecture layout to maximize investment flexibility and deploy defensive technology shields.
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.
Asset Owners
27 Aug 2026
Japan's premier private life carrier is shifting long-duration portfolios into offshore quantitative channels to protect solvency metrics from structural margin compression.
Asset Owners
26 Aug 2026
South Korea's National Pension Service is building aggressive offshore private credit routes, pulling capital out of stagnant domestic equities to secure downside insulation.
Asset Owners
25 Aug 2026
As Bank Negara Malaysia enforces strict climate risk reporting requirements, regional insurance operators weaponise targeted infrastructure bonds to protect core long-duration liability portfolios.
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 allocators to aggressively target shorter durations and floating-rate credit to survive central bank data dependence.
Asset Owners
24 Aug 2026
Following the landmark appointment of Melissa Henson as Chief Executive Officer of BPI AIA Life Assurance Corporation, the combined insurance group re-evaluates its liquidity footprint to capitalise on a multi-billion-peso sovereign storage infrastructure rollout.
Asset Owners
21 Aug 2026
The insurance conglomerate is actively restructuring its multi-billion-dollar fixed-income matrix under look-through regulatory parameters. The shift redirects premium liquid cash into specialized alternative debt instruments to insulate yields.
Asset Owners
20 Aug 2026
A massive portfolio reallocation is accelerating across regional insurance general accounts as state-backed pension desks look beyond listed fixed-income markets. The migration targets senior corporate lending and alternative credit tranches.
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.
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.
Asset Owners
11 Aug 2026
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund has recorded a historic performance milestone while state officials move to grant the sovereign entity broader investment boundary permissions.
Private Wealth
7 Aug 2026
Following recent global technology liquidations, Hang Seng Bank’s private banking division is urging wealth clients to move past hardware speculation and prioritize cash-flow visibility, structural income, and selective cyclical exposures across Asia.
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