Regulator ASIC is stepping up scrutiny of private credit following rising defaults, valuation uncertainty and redemption pressures in markets like the US and Europe.
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Pension Funds
Danantara to acquire a stake in Indonesia Stock Exchange; PIF ramps up privatisation drive; GIC and Macquarie partner with Anthropic on US data centre platform; Singapore mulls $500m fund to climate-proof food system; and more.
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Tokyo’s drive for pension funds to boost domestic allocations is reshaping how international investors view Japan.
GIC plans $1 billion private equity stake sale; Danantara prepares $500 million hedge fund allocation; Prime Super and Aware Super explore fund merger; and more.
Amid macroeconomic headwinds and changing regulations, institutions focus on active management and asset recovery.
Tokyo’s call for its pension funds to boost domestic allocations could unleash a flow of trillions of yen into government bonds and equities.
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To avoid repeating past portfolio mistakes, insurers and pension funds are imposing strict analytical frameworks, asking for cross-factor analysis from their partners.
State Street has renewed its mandate with Korea’s $1.1 trillion National Pension Service (NPS), backing the fund's global expansion and total portfolio approach (TPA) strategies.
GIC makes $30bn hedge fund push; HSBC sells $2bn insurance unit to Allianz; La Caisse commits $231 million to Go Farm; and more.
Allocators are reshaping governance structures, centralising liquidity buffers and adopting multidimensional risk models to navigate market complexity.
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South Korea's SWF KIC opens an office in Tokyo; Danantara merges four asset managers; CEFC backs Tasmania forestry deal; and more.
The fund's manager warns that liquidity risk — not AI concentration — may be the greater structural threat to Korean institutional portfolios as private market allocations expand.
