Lucas Cacioli

While India's market has corrected from recent peaks, strong domestic demand, scale, and robust earnings potential continue to make it attractive relative to regional peers.

From data centres and smart metering to semiconductor fabrication and green hydrogen, India's sovereign fund is targeting climate, digital and frontier technologies that will drive the next phase of economic transformation.

India's sovereign-backed fund has completed five major exits across renewable energy, healthcare and transportation, demonstrating its ability to build, scale and monetise infrastructure platforms.

As India faces headwinds from US tariffs and market volatility, investors see reforms becoming institutionalised while external challenges remain manageable due to the country's domestic orientation.

With a unique governance structure balancing government backing and private sector discipline, NIIF has established itself as the gateway for international investment capital flowing into India's infrastructure and growth sectors.

Growing allocations to private credit are helping Asian insurers sustain product returns, but BOC Life warns that exit risks and the need for diversification remain underappreciated as inflows accelerate.

Operating across multiple regulatory jurisdictions require robust valuation frameworks and stress testing for private credit investments, said the life insurer’s head of investment strategy.

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, together with JP Morgan Asset Management, argues that the rampant unsystematic approaches to alternatives investing must end, and unveils a new framework for resilient multi‑alternatives portfolios.

Risk-based capital frameworks across Asia are fundamentally changing how insurance investment teams approach asset allocation, with interest rate challenges and capital efficiency becoming central to investment strategy development.

Japan's defined benefit pensions are reluctant to fully return to domestic bonds despite higher rates, instead shifting toward general accounts and alternatives in pursuit of better yields, according to JP Morgan Asset Management's latest pension survey.

Policy credibility and deepening capital markets are transforming Asian fixed income from a tactical play into a strategic allocation, even as managers debate whether the region can compete on yield with other emerging markets.

Infrastructure, mid-market corporate lending and emerging areas such as fund financing continue to attract capital, supported by structural financing gaps and resilient cashflows.