While Korea and Taiwan lead growth in the sector, risks remain, underscoring the need for diversification across asset classes, according to a report by UBS.
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Investors are now targeting deeper supply chain plays, infrastructure needs and structural governance reform beneficiaries in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.
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As geopolitical uncertainty cements volatility as a structural market feature, investors are pivoting toward resilient assets, local expertise and the broadening AI infrastructure cycle.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) remains the dominant investment theme across North Asia, but institutional investors are no longer approaching Japan, South Korea and Taiwan as a single regional trade.
CEO Lim Chow Kiat introduces a refreshed three-part portfolio structure in the 2026 annual report, to drive active returns amid rising geopolitical and macroeconomic complexity.
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AsianInvestor explores how investors in the region can navigate the turbulence while maintaining long-term exposure to this structural theme.
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Frontier innovations like blockchain and quantum computing remain sidelined in Asia's institutional portfolios due to unpredictable returns, conservative risk mandates and operational execution gaps.
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Founder and CIO Aradhna Dayal is pivoting her family's traditional real estate portfolio toward data centres, smart logistics hubs and AI-driven healthcare funds.
Institutional investors are narrowing their China focus on domestic semiconductors and industrial policy plays, while rising geopolitical and currency risks fuel a broader "home-shoring" trend across Asia.
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Bracing for a "polycrisis" world, the Singaporean investor is targeting 5% allocations to private credit and infrastructure alongside portfolio-wide AI adoption.
APAC allocators are recalibrating their portfolios to focus on compelling valuations, the infrastructure boom and a rising regional appetite for private credit, according to a report by Preqin.
Seeking to avoid the concentration risks of mature markets, institutions are building globally diversified portfolios to capitalise on the infrastructure required to support cloud migration and AI expansion across growth economies.
