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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.
Asset Owners
5 Oct 2026
South Korean authorities are leaning toward retaining the 70 per cent cap on risky assets in retirement pensions. Market volatility has slowed a reform push that had aimed to give savers more room. For managers, the near-term product and allocation story stays inside the existing framework.
Asset Owners
2 Oct 2026
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.
Asset Owners
1 Sep 2026
The third-largest pension fund’s massive first-half outperformance exposes a heavy factor concentration. As global allocators chase index beta, macro risk architects are evaluating the hidden liquidity traps behind the AI equity boom.
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
17 Aug 2026
South Korea's Ministry of Finance has initialized plans to launch a dedicated state-backed sovereign vehicle to deploy up to 1 trillion won ($707 million) into strategic high-tech tranches. The mandate positions the peninsula aggressively within the intensifying global sovereign tech procurement race.
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