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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
12 Oct 2026
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.
Asset Owners
7 Oct 2026
Asia currently accounts for roughly 10 percent of the fund’s private equity portfolio. That share is expected to double over the next three to five years as the A$430 billion pension fund seeks higher returns in markets with lower private equity penetration.
Analysis
2 Oct 2026
From Tokyo’s policy calendar to private-market under-allocation and another round of private-bank hiring, the week ending 2 October left a clear message for CIOs and heads of allocation. Japan is again a rates-and-governance story, Asia private markets remain structurally under-owned relative to GDP weight, and franchise building in private wealth has not paused.
Private Wealth
29 Sep 2026
Citi Wealth’s 2026 Global Family Office Report finds Asia-Pacific family offices reporting the highest portfolio outperformance globally, with 26 per cent above 15 per cent year to date. The same cohort shows the most ambitious return targets and the strongest focus on artificial intelligence for new direct investment. Direct-investing participation in APAC is the highest of any region in the survey.
Asset Owners
25 Sep 2026
The Marsh Global Asset Owner Barometer 2026, covering 430 owners with about US$5.8 trillion in assets, finds infrastructure the strongest net allocation intention for the coming year. Inflation-linked assets and emerging-market equities follow. Cash has flipped from net reduction plans to a clear net increase, restoring optionality after a year of tighter liquidity preferences.
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.
Private Wealth
10 Sep 2026
An industry-wide restructuring across premier wealth platforms introduces a direct deal-sourcing blueprint. Top-tier private wealth managers are aggregating capital to execute institutional-scale private placements.
Asset Owners
4 Sep 2026
The premier Southeast Asian retirement fund records a major leap in half-year investment income. A deliberate portfolio asset rotation into global equities and alternative private placements anchors the fund's absolute returns.
Asset Owners
2 Sep 2026
The massive capital deployment executed by South Korea's National Pension Service sidesteps traditional commingled fund tracks. By establishing a direct co-investment pipeline, the sovereign allocator is locking in core logistics cash flows.
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.
Private Wealth
19 Aug 2026
A sweeping legislative tax exemption bill submitted to local lawmakers has set off an intensive restructuring wave among regional wealth managers and single-family offices. The updated regulatory framework slashes historical qualifying barriers, allowing private bank-backed external asset managers to capture immediate carried interest tax windfalls.
Opinion
18 Aug 2026
The escalating institutional reliance on alternative interest payment modifications threatens the core transparency of the private debt ecosystem, creating hidden pockets of asset risk within multi-billion-dollar allocation portfolios.
Private Wealth
14 Aug 2026
The private banking giant has registered an extraordinary surge in family office capital inflows following the rollout of bespoke private market 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.
Private Wealth
6 Aug 2026
In a strategic move to institutionalize its technology-driven wealth ecosystem, DBS Group has appointed seasoned industry veteran Jonathan Larsen to its board of directors.
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.
Asset Owners
27 Jul 2026
Canada’s largest pension fund expands its core joint venture platform across primary Indian trade corridors, targeting institutional Grade-A supply infrastructure to capture resilient manufacturing carry.
Asset Owners
27 Jul 2026
The National Pension Service of South Korea establishes a strategic alternative credit and physical infrastructure equity allocation pipeline, adjusting public market exposure to lock in industrial footprints across emerging trading corridors.
Asset Owners
23 Jul 2026
China’s USD 1.35 trillion sovereign wealth fund redirects capital from traditional Western real estate portfolios, establishing a massive infrastructure equity pipeline across primary ASEAN manufacturing corridors.
Opinion
16 Jul 2026
Ahead of its highly anticipated financial disclosure on July 21, the global risk analytics giant stands poised to capitalize on intense private credit data demands and total-portfolio risk mapping across APAC.
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