The life insurers shared their approaches to green investments, local market challenges, and combating greenwashing.
Pension Funds
Malaysian asset owners anticipate the 2025 budget measures to optimise taxation and foster a thriving ecosystem for the private market.
Australia’s central bank has raised concerns about the superannuation sector's rapid growth and its impact on financial stability. However, industry experts say the risks are nuanced, with safeguards already in place.
John Livanas, CEO of State Super, discusses the superannuation fund's sale of its Queensland Airports Limited stake and explains why future infrastructure investments are improbable for its closed defined contributions fund.
DSP Pension Fund Managers hopes that taking value-driven concentrated bets in equities and automating processes will help it eventually rank among the top five in the country over a decade.
APG Asset Management was an early adopter of AI in the pension fund industry, and has been particularly successful in harnessing technology to improve private markets investing, according to its Asia COO.
Asia's robust economic backdrop is driving Asia-Pacific asset owners to increase allocations to the region's fixed income markets as a source of stable returns, a new State Street Global Advisors survey finds.
Even as the Korean pension fund re-examines the appeal of developed markets, it has ventured into its first direct emerging market investments in Asia, its CIO tells AsianInvestor.
GIC mulls investing in appliance maker's HK listing; Malaysia's SWF expects better investment returns in 2024 from a year ago; Temasek set to buy stake in Blackstone-owned VFS; KIC seeking entity for investment services; and more.
The $16 billion AirTrunk acquisition by CPP Investments and Blackstone, valuing it eight times higher than four years ago, underscores explosive growth in Asia Pacific's data centre market.
Dutch pension giant APG Asset Management and Australia's Aware Super’s latest deal underscores the growing importance of digitalisation in institutional portfolios. The deal also marks the Australian fund's first infra deal from its London base.
The British insurer remains bullish on its private pension business in China while keeping a close eye on the US and global inflation for its investment portfolio.