Artificial intelligence (AI) remains the dominant investment theme across North Asia, but institutional investors are no longer approaching Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a single regional trade.
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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.
AsianInvestor explores how investors in the region can navigate the turbulence while maintaining long-term exposure to this structural theme.
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As Korean institutions commit to a decade-long expansion in private assets, growing liquidity risks and strong public market performance are shaping a more structured approach to allocation.
Oman Investment Authority's Future Fund announces projects worth $1.74bn; KWAP seeks recovery from eFishery fraud; Malaysian state Sabah mulls sovereign wealth fund; and more.
South Korea's SWF KIC opens an office in Tokyo; Danantara merges four asset managers; CEFC backs Tasmania forestry deal; and more.
QBE takes full control of India's Raheja QBE general insurer; Korea plans new investment fund using tax windfall from AI; Mubadala opens $25bn credit business to outside Investors; 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.
Korean pensions must endure volatility and embrace a total portfolio approach (TPA) after painful lessons from 2008 exposed the cost of abandoning long-term conviction.
Canada’s second-largest pension investor sees the country as an active opportunity market across public equities and digital infrastructure, with corporate reforms potentially opening future private equity deals.
Oil has drifted lower since the Iran war spike in March. Defence budgets and central bank gold purchases have not. The divergence is reshaping the emerging market investment case.
