Zurich promotes Jim Qin to Hong Kong insurance head; Clifford Capital taps Schroders' Lily Choh as CEO; HSBC ropes in new Bermuda insurance CEO from Sun Life; Hines makes senior promotion in Singapore; and more.
Asia
Canada's largest pension fund is leveraging data centre acquisitions and technological partnerships to capture growth in AI revolution and cloud computing expansion.
Prudential taps Swiss Re CIO as board director; Gaw Capital and CBRE name APAC data centre heads; Axa IM Alts reshuffles regional leadership team, and more.
The Fed’s hold on rate cuts signals caution on inflation, but its impact on Asia remains layered—shaping currency movements, policy decisions and investor sentiment throughout the region.
Fifteen-fold growth in assets underscores CPP Investments’ strategic positioning across multiple sectors in one of Asia's fastest-growing economies.
Tuck Meng Yee of JRT Partners is steering clear of headline-chasing plays, opting instead for value-led investing in emerging markets and active strategies in Japan and Europe, while remaining cautious on the US dollar and inflation-sensitive assets.
A growing wave of institutional capital across Asia—spanning family offices, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds—is reshaping digital asset markets.
As transition finance gains momentum across Asian markets, investors are turning attention to underfunded natural capital solutions that blend climate resilience with commercial returns.
REI Super names group executive; CBUS appoints an ESG integration head; Acenda group picks new group CEO; QIC names its next head of Asia, and more.
Rising tensions in the Middle East escalated sharply following US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, intensifying fears of regional conflict and a potential disruption to global oil flows.
In partnership with ICE
With financial assets at risk from more frequent and intense natural disasters, Christy Chan, head of APAC client development at ICE, explores the need for APAC investors to incorporate physical climate risk data into a portfolio-wide view of risk exposure and allocation opportunities.
The share sale would mark the insurer's third bid to go public, after it shelved two previous attempts.
