Alternatives

The Head of Global Sustainability at T. Rowe Price discusses the narrative around decarbonisation and how the transition is a structural transformation of the world's energy system.

The APAC region's exchange-traded fund market closed 2025 at a record $2.43 trillion, powered by China’s fixed-income boom and surging demand for gold.

As the search for genuine diversification deepens, institutional investors in the region are critically assessing the illiquidity premium to build resilient portfolios.

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

Investor confidence in Asia Pacific real estate is rebounding as stabilising interest rates and inflation drive clarity.

Following the historic breakdown of traditional equity-bond diversification, institutional portfolios Asia-Pacific are increasingly pivoting toward alternative income, market-neutral, systematic macro and ILS to secure uncorrelated returns.

Senior partner Anurag Agrawal says the impact investor is sharpening its deep-tech focus with patient capital and multi-stage strategies to scale sustainable businesses and advance India’s self-reliance.

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.

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.

Australian Retirement Trust views the AI bubble narrative as premature but warns AI-related equities are no longer cheap, as the fund repositions towards financials and healthcare.

The region is seeing a structural reallocation of credit on the back of evolving regulation and a growing gap between traditional lenders and borrowers.

The Australian pension fund’s CEO argues the market is betting on the wrong part of the AI value chain.