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The list of reasons to invest in APAC is compelling and institutional investors in the region are increasingly tapping the opportunities. Top1000funds.com looks at the different levels of income, volatility, efficiency and ultimately returns across the region.
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A geostrategic standoff between the US and China over AI would be “extremely damaging for capital owners” according to the Future Fund, Australia’s A$337 billion ($237 billion) sovereign wealth fund, which outlined four “secular scenarios” around AI and its investment implications.
Investors are operating in a period of “profound uncertainty” intrinsically different from anything they have lived through in the past few decades and for some, their entire investing lifetimes, according to GIC's top economist and investment strategist Prakash Kannan.
The past two years have been a challenging time for private equity investors thanks to low deal activities, falling distributions and tough exit environment. At FIS Singapore, a panel of investors examine how secondaries can help alleviate the asset class stress in portfolios.
Institutional investment in private credit across the Asia-Pacific is failing to keep pace with the region's strong economic growth and more attractive interest rate environment, according to a panel of investors at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium.
A decision by government-backed AI Singapore to rank organisations according to their awareness of and competency in AI before working with them has helped the nation become a global AI superpower, ranked behind only the US and China. The approach is also driving healthy ROI on AI projects.
Pictet Asset Management believes that declining emerging market policy rates and rising global trade will drive the performance of EM debt – and if the US dollar declines and local manufacturing rebounds, we could see a “super boom”.
Despite the apparent chaos and US President Donald Trump’s many idiosyncrasies – and those of the people he’s surrounded by – it does not signal that the US is declining in either power or influence, and a ‘new equilibrium’ will emerge, the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore heard.
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