As we hit the mid-point of the year, uncertainty continues to shape sentiment in the current environment. Across asset classes and markets, investment and portfolio specialists from PineBridge Investments identify what to watch and where to allocate for the rest of 2025.
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.
With long-term emissions targets in sight, Singlife is embedding sustainability deeper into its business DNA—balancing regulatory readiness with investment practicality.
As trade tensions escalate and volatility rises, asset owners are rebalancing portfolios, reducing US equity exposure and rotating to Europe as they eye fixed income and emerging market debt for stability and yield.
A survey in Q1 2025 of more than 70 investors from 50 leading insurers across the region by AsianInvestor, in collaboration with Aberdeen Investments, reveals different routes to tackling new regimes and planning portfolios in a new investment era.
The Singapore-based life insurer's precise approach to private market allocations emphasises manager selection and liability matching over opportunistic returns.
With long-term liabilities to match, Singlife adopts a very disciplined, prudent yet flexible approach to credit allocation, prioritising fundamentals and quality even while seeking yield-enhancing opportunities in private credit.
In response to multiple, concurrent crises, MFS believes investors should look beyond external factors like interest rates and geopolitical risks that are out of their control – and instead adopt an approach that enables them to not just cope, but rise above the current noise and build resilience, says Carol Geremia, President of MFS and Co-Head of Global Distribution.
As retirement schemes attempt to guide members on how to avoid crystallising losses in the wake of the recent market falls, investment teams are likely to reduce their US equity weightings.