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Geopolitical risks push APAC family office allocations locally

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2024
... head of UBS global family institutional wealth for APAC LH Koh said. "APAC family offices are keen to add more developed markets fixed income (48%) and developed markets equities (45%). There was increased appetite for alternatives, as APAC family offices ...

Family offices up active management, eye generative AI: UBS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2024
... market bonds in 2023, up from just 12% in 2022, and plan to maintain this level in 2024. "The shift towards developed markets fixed income does not surprise me because we have owned little to no fixed income over the past 10 to 15 years. With the increase ...

AMP launches alternative debt fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2024
AMP is launching a new investment solution to provide bespoke access to global private debt investments in developed markets. AMP said the total volume of institutional assets under management allocated to private debt is estimated to be around US$1.7 ...

Institutional investors eye increased exposure to Vietnam

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2024
... interviewed agree that frontier markets can offer attractive diversification benefits compared to emerging and developed markets. Vietnam Enterprise Investment Limited lead portfolio manager Tuan Le said the appeal of investing in Vietnam was clear ...

Baby boomers turn to local private debt: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2024
... Analytics said. The report added that Australian private debt has and continues to pay a premium over other major developed markets, including Europe and the US. "In short, this is a scarcity premium," the report said. "There is simply less big money ...

Global economy to grow at a slower positive rate

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2024
... said. In Australia, Rouse noted that inflation, including wage inflation, remains more elevated than in other developed markets and interest rates are expected to remain higher for longer. "Our mortgage market relies more on variable rates compared to ...

Emerging markets well placed for 2024

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2024
... research by Robeco, the five-year expected return forecast for emerging markets is 8.25%, a 1.5% premium over developed markets. This is in part because, from a macroeconomic perspective, Robeco said the advantages that developed markets have enjoyed ...

Mild recession in 2024, higher interest rates: Vanguard

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... expensive to issue and refinance debt," Vanguard said. In the next year, Vanguard projects global equities for developed markets can achieve between 7% and 9% based on 10-year annualised returns. Global equities for emerging markets will be between 6.6% ...

Gender pay gap a crucial diversity metric: FSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... diversity has been addressed in most markets in the last 10-15 years and overall, board diversity has gone up in developed markets. It's not great in Asia and it's still not very good in some smaller companies, even in Australia, which drags ...

Active funds outperform passive strategies - sometimes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
... three, five, and 10-year periods by a substantial margin. Amid the recent trend of rising interest rates in most developed markets, active funds have also surpassed passive strategies in the bonds-global category over the past decade. Conversely, in ...