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As Asia’s asset management landscape evolves, Taiwan and Japan have clear ambitions to become the region’s next major hubs. Christy Chan, senior director, relationship management at ICE in Asia Pacific, explores each market’s path to achieving this goal and compares their strategies with those of the US, the world’s leading wealth management hub.

In response to multiple, concurrent crises, MFS believes investors should look beyond external factors like interest rates and geopolitical risks that are out of their control – and instead adopt an approach that enables them to not just cope, but rise above the current noise and build resilience, says Carol Geremia, President of MFS and Co-Head of Global Distribution.

The results from survey point to a growing risk-on sentiment among investors, with plans to expand into niche areas of private fixed income.

Multi-asset credit represents an interesting investment opportunity in today’s environment, with global geopolitics and inflationary concerns making European credit a potentially attractive choice, says Richard Ryan at M&G Investments.

As private credit becomes more common in portfolios amid greater exposure to alternatives, investors want new, satellite allocations with extra alpha and diversification in mind. Growth lending can deliver these goals, according to Xiaying Zhang, Wellington Management’s director of private investments, APAC.

Reverting to voice trading in times of crisis will mean credit traders miss out on key benefits of electronic protocols.

We consider how alternative credit has evolved, and what these asset classes can provide investors in uncertain times.

Asset owners and managers in Asia Pacific (APAC) are looking to domestic and regional bond markets for portfolio diversification and income, reveals a survey commissioned by State Street Global Advisors’ ABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund (PAIF).

At a time of flux in markets and with investors planning their allocations for the year ahead amid a cautious outlook for US interest rates, the modular construction of the Russell US Indexes can enable portfolios to diversify exposure to the US economy’s growth potential with greater precision.

Greater appetite for fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and products with exposure to forces that could reshape the world economy - like artificial intelligence (AI) and automation - are underpinning demand, says Magnus Cattan, vice president, head of client development for ICE in Asia Pacific.

Exposure to a range of public and private companies across diverse sectors from renewables and energy efficiency, to sustainable agriculture, water supply and waste management, can provide attractive returns amid the growing urgency for environmental solutions, believe Pictet Asset Management along with executives from family offices and endowments in Asia.

With the US election results in and policy uncertainties largely resolved, we expect a return to fundamentals in 2025 with ongoing innovations and supply chain changes create a ripe hunting ground for global equities, particularly for companies poised to benefit from longer-term secular trends