Hugo Cox

As asset managers curb support for shareholder votes, a debate rages between investors' fiduciary responsibilities and pursuing sustainability goals.

Singapore's fourth-largest insurer, Income Insurance, has deployed millions of dollars in private credit recently. There are plans to commit more even as the company faces acquisition by German giant Allianz.

Norges Bank Investment Management is working with its 9,000 investees to improve reporting under the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.

Support by the world’s leading investment managers on ESG votes tabled by APAC shareholders is waning, which is piling pressure on other institutional investors to take the lead.

Despite falling flows across the Asia Pacific region, institutional investor allocations to Australia's real estate market have increased by $1.16 billion in Q2 year-on-year, to $6 billion.

Following the sector's record first-quarter flows, flows fell 39% year-on-year in the second quarter, according to the latest data.

Allocations into Korean offices have surged this year, even as investors continue to avoid the sector across APAC, a recent report noted.

Inaccurate perceptions of how development finance entities work could be shutting institutional investors out of important co-investment opportunities.

Institutional investors and venture capital managers don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to the most effective ways to fund emissions reductions in Asia.

Leading development finance institutions are investing in bank and non-bank lenders across emerging markets in Asia, with prominent allocations in India and Nepal.

Australia's office sector is expected to lead the regional rebound in cross-border flows, a new report predicts.

Climate Investment Fund, the state-backed development fund focussed on climate related investment, will invest up to $653 million in Asia over the next three years.