Pakistan

A flare-up in violence between the South Asian neighbours is prompting some global fund managers to eye a shift toward Southeast Asian and Gulf nations.

After several years of lackluster returns, the Asian high yield market outperformed its European and US counterparts in 2024. This year, fixed income investors are likely to focus on issuers that can benefit from interest rate cuts in the US and changes in trade policy from President Donald Trump’s administration.

AsianInvestor's 13th Family Office Briefing returns to Hong Kong on 30 May 2024, providing family office leaders with an exclusive platform to engage in high-level networking and participate in interactive discussions on asset allocation trends, income strategies, private market opportunities, the resurgence of digital assets, and strategies for future-proofing portfolios to ensure long-term growth.

The foreign development finance institution has £485 million to spend in the region by 2026.

AsianInvestor’s Family Office Briefing returns to Hong Kong as an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and will bring together a select group of family office leaders to discuss the investment landscape, emerging themes and opportunities, and the growing importance of sustainable and impact investing.

As the South Asian economy looks to eliminate interest from its banking system, Fitch Ratings' global head of Islamic finance, Bashar Al Natoor, examines what this could mean for the country’s Islamic finance sector.

Also called orange bonds, this relatively new class of sustainable financing aims to remove gender bias and improve women’s equality and living standards in developing countries.

Insurer Aviva Singlife appoints new group chief executive; Temasek director relocates for MLC Asset Management role; Schroders sales director leaves for VC firm; Invesco fixed income manager leaves; Credit Suisse Global PE head to relocate to Hong Kong; UBS AM Australia and NZ head to step down; and more.

Australia's Future Fund gains 4.5% AUM in first quarter; Chinese investors in talks to buy a stake in Saudi Aramco; Hong Kong's Exchange Fund makes $1.49bn quarterly gain; Korea's NPS could divest from coal-related investments; Temasek, GIC and other pension funds in talks with UK government to fund British green energy projects and more.

South and Southeast Asia have been an oasis of calm amid global uncertainty, but can the region maintain this level of calm? Five fund managers offer their views.

Malaysian asset managers' share of global sharia-compliant funds could overtake that of firms based in Saudi Arabia, according to AsianInvestor's annual ranking this year.

The great rotation from fixed income to equities is yet to occur. But the future of the asset class is up for debate as the Federal Reserve looks to taper its QE programme.