With competition intensifying across the Asia Pacific region, Australia offers lender-friendly regulations, strong market fundamentals and growing institutional interest.
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.
Private credit markets in the US and Europe show signs of overheating, while Asia offers a less saturated, more insulated alternative—but navigating it demands an in-depth understanding according to industry experts.
Private credit markets are pricing risk at historically low levels despite increasing uncertainty. Leading asset managers point to several overlooked warning signals that could spell trouble for unprepared investors.
The principal of New York-based Peninsula House sees opportunity in short-term financing to the challenged real estate sector in markets such as Hong Kong and mainland China.
India-focused private debt funds’ assets under management (AUM) grew by 26 times to $17.8 billion in 2023 from less than a billion dollars in 2010, a Preqin report said.
Despite solid growth, capital flows into Asia Pacific's private debt market lag behind the asset class's regional potential, as investor concerns persist.
Japanese corporate pension funds continue to favour alternative investments as a growing asset class, with a particular emphasis on income-generating private assets for portfolio diversification, according to a survey.
The head of the Singapore investment manager for Italy’s Spinola clan reveals how it is working with external partners and what concerns her about the alternative credit market.