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Asian institutions are building gold as a strategic sleeve, not a trade.

Asset Owners

2 Oct 2026

Asian institutions are building gold as a strategic sleeve, not a trade.

Across the region, sovereign, pension and insurance balance sheets are treating gold as portfolio infrastructure: Hong Kong is deepening market plumbing and MPF access paths, Korea has widened reserve implementation tools, and Japanese institutional investors are looking beyond domestic bonds and currency risk. The common theme is diversification under a wider set of macro outcomes.

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.

Asia DPM Allocation After US Concentration

Private Wealth

16 Sep 2026

Asia DPM Allocation After US Concentration

Discretionary books in the region are being rebuilt around a reduction in US equity weight. Lombard Odier’s published 2026 Asia DPM stance overweight emerging-market equities, underweight US equities, holds fixed income neutral with an EM-bond tilt, uses convertibles for optionality and treats gold as a core holding. Digital assets are excluded.

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