Nishtha Asthana

A decade of excess capital deployed into Asia’s private markets has forced a fundamental repricing of risk and is now defining which managers survive the correction.

As competition weakens protections in the West, Asian private credit is emerging as a structural outlier.

A decisive investor pivot toward tangible cash exits is forcing Indian fund managers to prioritise liquidity over peak-era paper valuations.

As artificial intelligence accelerates, one family office outlines how frontier technologies, public markets and collaboration shape its long-term allocation strategy.

After a gruelling two-year correction, India’s private capital market is shedding its skin to prioritise real distributions over paper gains.

Hong Kong's 2026 budget has introduced long-awaited tax clarity for digital assets, bringing crypto within the scope of established fund and reporting frameworks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Crypto prices have retreated in 2026, reviving concerns over short-term volatility. But Asymmetry Capital says the pullback has not altered its long-term positioning.