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APAC is entering 2026 with resilient deal values, sector-specific momentum in AI, healthcare, and infrastructure, and rising regulatory complexity.
Norway's SWF excludes India's Adani Green Energy from its portfolio; Australia's Aware Super scraps restrictions on high-carbon companies' investment; and more
China is no longer being passively inherited through emerging market benchmarks, but it is not being tactically sidelined either.
As data centres evolve into massive energy consumers, the industry’s "unsexy" fundamentals, grid reliability and baseload power, are superseding speculative AI premiums as the primary drivers of investment value.
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Indonesian SWF investment co-head departs; Manulife names new CEO for its Indian Joint Venture; Australia's QBE names new Asia property lead; VFMC appoints new chief finance and risk officer, and more.
The apparent benefits for regional heavyweights including China may be overshadowed by fresh legal uncertainty and the rising volatility created by AI, market watchers say.
Asia’s wealth managers are getting bigger and fewer. After years of rapid expansion, a quiet shake-up is underway that could redraw the region’s independent wealth landscape.
In this new edition of our quick-fire Q&A, AsianInvestor catches up with Shen Tan, managing director at Lazard Asset Management.
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Global allocators are redesigning how China sits inside emerging market portfolios, with benchmarks capturing only a fraction of the world's second-biggest equity market.
A Nuveen survey shows that engagement with AI is particularly strong in Asia Pacific, where 62% of institutional investors see computing power and chips as the greatest opportunity.
Asia’s family offices are embedding music royalties and other niche alternatives more deeply into portfolios, shifting the conversation from short-term diversification metrics to governance, durability and uncorrelated income.
