The economic fundamentals of Asia dictate that asset owners should lift their allocations to the region, and a panel at the Fiduciary Investors Symposium – including chief of APG in the region – heard the best way to exploit the emerging opportunities is to have investment professionals on the ground.
The strength of China’s national leadership remains a central topic for avid China watchers around the world. As the nation heads into a structural reshuffle of its economy, investors, researchers and political scientists have different views on Chinese policymakers’ ability to work with the financial market from this point on.
For investors based in Asia, a home bias can throw up some challenges that affect investors homed in other regions much less. Three Asia-based investors – Temasek, Brunei Investment Agency and Khazanah – outlined to the Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore last week how they face into those challenges.
National University of Singapore’s leading sustainable finance researcher Sumit Agarwal has urged global investors to maintain a critical mindset when approaching an asset class’s green certification, saying that buying into sustainability claims blindly can undermine both the investment’s returns and their societal goals.
The specific drivers of growth of Asian economies means a traditional view of asset allocation is not necessarily the best way to approach investing in the region, the 2024 Top100funds.com Fiduciary Investors Symposium in Singapore has heard.
Asia is an attractive region for investment by institutional asset owners, but economic prosperity and wealth won’t be created by chance. The Fiduciary Investors Symposium has heard that it will be the result of a series of careful, deliberate policy choices.
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