Hong Kong

Singapore's family offices surged 43% to over 2,000 in 2024, but this rapid growth is exposing critical talent shortages and risk management gaps that threaten their sustainability.

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.

With capital market rotations accelerating and old models breaking down, the Hong Kong-based life insurer sees building in-house agility as key to generating alpha and managing risk.

Specialist climate investor Clean Energy Finance Cooperation and Canadian pension fund La Caisse launch agricultural platform Meldora to generate carbon credit units; Australian Retirement Trust backs 5-year ESG strategy with $666m Macquarie climate fund investment; and more.

Anchored by its $5.2bn Future Fund, the Gulf state is financing a domestic energy transition and using Hong Kong as a gateway to access key technology and partnerships.

Super SA appoints Tricia Blight as CEO; Cbus hires head of risk transformation; M&G Hong Kong investment director steps down; and more.

Principal Kin Leung Chan is positioning Click Ventures' portfolio through the lens of what he sees as attractive valuations in China and Hong Kong with the US pricey by comparison.

Family offices are charging deeper into private equity, taking on institutional investors in deals while layering into complex products. But rapid expansion, rising rates and weak governance controls are combining to raise the stakes, and the risks.

Canada pension fund CPP Investments appoints Kevin Bong to lead portfolio design and construction; QBE Malaysia names CEO; Blackstone rejigs Asia real estate unit; and more.

Benjamin Deng talks about plans to drive growth, his views on the private credit market and how energy innovation could reshape the global economy.

Kin Leung Chan, the Hong Kong family office's principal, says the traditional divide between public and private investing has narrowed significantly.

Temasek goes through leadership restructure; QBE bolsters Asia leadership team with two appointments; Corecam appoints Singapore MD from Standard Chartered; and more.