Asset themes

As debate over Western-style OCIO models intensifies in Tokyo, foreign asset managers risk misreading who actually controls allocation decisions across Japan’s pension, endowment and private wealth markets.

Investors are increasingly challenging consensus views on AI, rates and regional market leadership, arguing that attractive opportunities lie well beyond today's most popular trades.

The sovereign investor wants publicly listed investments to account for 70-75% of its AI allocation, giving it greater flexibility as technology and investment opportunities change.

The $300 billion superannuation giant expects its Asian private equity (PE) portfolio to double within four years.

The Abu Dhabi sovereign fund is using partnerships to expand its AI investment while spreading exposure across data centres, language models and applications.

Private credit, secondaries and real assets are becoming established parts of the region's private-market portfolios.

Asset owners are strengthening downside protection and cash reserves while exercising sharper selectivity in private markets, according to a new industry survey.

Driven by elevated interest rates, the Singapore single-family office is demanding shorter hold periods, higher commercial maturity and guaranteed paths to liquidity.

Investors across Apac are turning to corporate capital solutions, specialised portfolio finance and niche asset-backed debt for double-digit yields.

While recent leadership appointments have reassured investors of policy continuity, severe external headwinds and a fragile currency mean foreign allocators remain wary.

Investors are adopting total-portfolio frameworks and factor-based risk models to identify hidden cross-asset correlations in AI infrastructure.

As a strengthening El Niño approaches, sovereign debt investors must look beyond headline weather predictions and evaluate how physical climate shocks transmit through local economies, policy responses and market valuations, says T. Rowe Price's Tongai Kunorubwe.