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Asset Owners
29 Oct 2026
The Bank of Thailand's Monetary Policy Committee held the one-day repurchase rate at 1.00 per cent on 28 October 2026, a unanimous fourth pause after 150 basis points of cuts, leaving the baht cash benchmark unchanged.
Asset Owners
29 Oct 2026
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has raised its dedicated RMB repo facility to RMB22 billion and designated 12 banks as Primary Liquidity Providers for two years from October 2026. The release sets out those operational parameters. It does not price hedges or resize investor holdings.
Analysis
29 Oct 2026
A DBS survey of 422 leaders at companies with annual revenue above US$500 million, published on 28 October 2026, finds 88 per cent already deploying or piloting tokenised money for expansion and liquidity, led by stablecoins.
Private Wealth
27 Oct 2026
The Securities and Futures Commission authorisation of around-the-clock secondary trading for two tokenised money market funds on a licensed virtual asset trading platform opens fresh liquidity channels for family offices and wealth managers across Asia-Pacific.
Asset Owners
26 Oct 2026
Assets under management were US$246.6bn at end-August 2026 after a 6.31 per cent return for the first eight months, as the sovereign fund advances unified portfolio management and domestic manager mandates.
Asset Owners
23 Oct 2026
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority can add private equity and property for 2027 only from the Exchange Fund surplus over the monetary base. Investors who treat the published size of the fund as investable capital will misread the mandate.
Analysis
19 Oct 2026
Net foreign sales of bonds in five Asian markets reached US$8.21 billion in September, the largest month since March 2020, while equities also saw heavy withdrawals. For investors, the issue is how to hold duration, liquidity and peer risk against a much higher US yield.
Private Wealth
15 Oct 2026
Samsung Securities’ family-office platform has scaled to 200 families and ₩55 trillion in client assets. The composition of that book (exit owners now three times the level of three years earlier) signals a structural shift in Korean UHNW liquidity that private banks and managers must price into product and capacity planning.
Private Wealth
8 Oct 2026
Standard Chartered has launched its tenth sub-fund under the Variable Capital Company platform, an enhanced cash management strategy managed by Insight Investment within BNY Investments. The platform has accumulated $2.6 billion in assets under management since its 2024 inception and now forms a core delivery channel for differentiated solutions to the bank’s affluent and high-net-worth clients across Asia and selected international markets.
Private Wealth
14 Sep 2026
An industry-wide liquidity rebalancing across leading domestic industrial hubs introduces specialized corporate duration parameters. Homegrown gatekeepers are weaponising high-grade infrastructure equity tranches to insulate core cash reserves.
Opinion
9 Sep 2026
The widespread institutional deployment of cross-fund liquidity clawbacks to protect mature asset tranches is creating an industry-wide blind spot. Intermediaries who mistake paper valuations for true portfolio liquidity are severely mispricing duration risks.
Opinion
2 Sep 2026
The widespread institutional reliance on short-term credit facilities to artificially juice private fund returns is creating a systemic blind spot. Family offices who mistake engineering for asset alpha are mispricing severe liquidity and duration risks.
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.
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.
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.
Private Wealth
5 Aug 2026
A major regulatory disclosure by the dairy giant reveals how large-cap Chinese enterprises are bypassing standard deposits to capture yields up to 2.55% via sophisticated fixed-income wealth management wrappers.
Asset Owners
4 Aug 2026
As prolonged fund distribution cycles and private-market valuation friction slow the velocity of cash returns across global asset registries, major institutional investors are executing targeted secondary market reallocations. By proactively divesting bundles of mature buyout and regional alternative fund interests, elite educational endowments and non-profit foundations are methodically restructuring their alternative portfolios to optimize near-term cash velocity and defend baseline capital-preservation targets.
Opinion
3 Aug 2026
The rapid expansion of semi-liquid, perpetual private market vehicles- frequently marketed as "evergreen" funds- has fundamentally transformed retail and intermediary capital gathering over the past decade. By packaging traditionally locked-up assets like middle-market private credit, infrastructure debt, and unlisted real estate into structures offering monthly or quarterly redemption windows, asset managers unlocked access to the massive global wealth channel. However, this architecture relies on a critical operational assumption: that continuous subscription inflows will always outpace redemption requests. As macroeconomic volatility tightens capital allocations across family offices and wealth platforms, this structural model is facing a severe systemic stress test, exposing deep friction points within asset mapping.
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