An unrecognisable financial landscape has necessitated adaptation of new methods and a focus on ESG by public asset owners in Asia.
Lucas Cacioli
The Dutch pension fund has entered its first investment in the Asia Pacific that purely focuses on the innovation and life sciences sectors.
Thijs Knaap, chief economist for Dutch pension fund APG, discusses how pension funds can protect themselves from the effects of high inflation.
After facing strong selling pressures at the beginning of the year, Chinese stocks have started to rally in the past weeks, but how long will this reversal last and should institutional investors be jumping back in?
Asian consumer companies received the majority of the total capital deployed by sovereign wealth funds throughout a record-breaking year of direct investments.
A majority of global private equity investors say their private equity investments have outperformed their public equity portfolios, according to Coller Capital’s latest private equity barometer survey.
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to disrupt the world’s energy supply, including the cost of doing so, institutional investors are now assessing to what degree the war will complicate the global transition away from fossil fuel-based energy.
The environmental impact of investment portfolios dominated headlines in 2021, but institutions will only increase their risk if they fail to address the social and governance principles of ESG as well, according to New Zealand’s sovereign wealth fund.
Volatile geopolitics, unpredictable monetary policy and generational differences in priorities means sovereign wealth funds will have their work cut out for them in the coming decades.
For asset owners and managers, sustainable long-term investing has evolved from divestment to active ownership strategies that foster better business practices.
Geopolitical turmoil and surging inflation might be looming over the global economy, but institutional investors continue to search for value in the potentially overheated private markets.
While the Canadian pension fund sees great opportunity throughout Asia’s emerging markets, it currently views India as the most investable and viable from an infrastructure investment perspective.
