APAC’s mega trends: The investors positioning for the future

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APAC strategies: Why active management pays

In a region as diverse as Asia investors can lean in and take advantage of inefficiencies and inconsistencies around growth, central bank policy and diverse regulatory regimes; and asset owners in the region are increasingly finding active management, across all asset classes, optimises returns and reduces risk. Top1000funds.com investigates.

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Opportunities in APAC: Diverse and dynamic

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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The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing

The twin forces rewriting the rules of investing

Portfolios built for the old world will be severely tested as emerging forces rewrite the rules of investing. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium heard that geopolitical and macroeconomic upheaval, together with the disruption wrought by AI, should force asset owners to rethink the structure and composition of portfolios.

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Dutch transition: APG leans into data, IT and communication

APG has successfully shifted its smaller pension fund clients to the new defined contribution pension system and now begins the huge task of moving the giant ABP as well. The defined contribution system has many implications including shedding more than 1000 staff at APG and moving investments more into riskier assets.

AP2: SEC ‘no-action’ rollback could send more shareholder proposals to vote

AP2 has voiced its concerns around what impact the shift in US shareholder proposal exclusions, or the so-called “no-action letter” change, will bring to sustainability-conscious investors, as the Swedish buffer fund gears up for a busy year of engagement in 2026.

Nest favours institutional-first managers as retail exodus pressures private credit

Nest, the largest workplace pension in the UK, says that private credit managers who prioritise institutional clients will be more favourably viewed. The £61 billion ($82 billion) fund has awarded a £450 million ($605 million) US direct lending mandate to Crescent Capital this month, citing the manager's institutional-client-first approach as a key attraction.

Inside CPP Investments’ TPA engine

TPA allows investors to better manage investment trade-offs, such as liquidity, costs and alpha, and has public and private investments compete explicitly on a common risk-adjusted basis, according to a new paper by CPP Investments. The Canadian giant, which has been practising TPA for two decades, says TPA cannot eliminate uncertainty, but it helps build resilience to it.

Long term lens shields Colorado from private credit jitters

As concerns in private credit mount, Colorado PERA CIO and COO Amy McGarrity says the pension fund isn’t seeing any strains in its growing allocation to the asset class, arguing that long-term investors are shielded from the risks because they can lock up their capital to weather market cycles.

Canada to allow retail contribution to new SWF

Canada has established its first national-level sovereign wealth fund with a seed of C$25 billion ($18.3 billion) to underwrite “nation-building” projects like ports, mines and energy infrastructure. In an unusual funding mechanism, the fund will issue a retail product that will allow individual investors to invest with the SWF and “participate in Canada’s growth”.

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