Equities

By mixing AI speed with human insight, institutions are building portfolios that prize both quantitative discipline and qualitative judgment.

Asset owners across APAC are turning to data-driven, machine-led investment strategies to strip behavioural biases from their portfolios and uncover untapped sources of diversification.

Local equities are increasingly viewed as resilient havens amid Middle East-driven volatility, underpinned by structural energy security and a tech-focused IPO market.

Record retail inflows have insulated Indian equities from global volatility, but asset owners face challenges as structural reliance on domestic liquidity may be masking overvalued earnings and a mounting sensitivity to oil prices.

Indian equities sitting on the ‘wrong side’ of AI trade could offer investors a shield against Taiwan and South Korea’s semiconductor volatility.

The Uzbekistan National Investment Fund is set to list on the London and Tashkent stock exchanges, marking a historic shift from debt to equity as the Central Asian nation's liberalising economy courts global investors.

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.

After a volatile Year of the Snake, investors enter the new year with fresh optimism as experts spotlight key opportunities ahead.

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

Pension assets worldwide surged 9.6% to $68.3 trillion in 2025, with Japan and Australia ranking among the world’s largest markets, a new report says.

Deflationary pressures, property overhang and industrial overcapacity are steering capital into structurally resilient tech niches and Chinese government bonds.

A senior portfolio manager at Australia's second-largest pension fund warns that a simultaneous selloff in bonds and equities represents the greatest fundamental risk facing investors this year.