Global foreign direct investment rebounds 6% to $1.6T in 2025, ending 2-year decline Developed economies see 11% rise in foreign direct investment, while flows to developing economies edge up 2%. Global foreign direct investment (FDI) rose 6% in 2025 to $1.6...
Announced transactions rose 9.4%, with mid-market activity driving much of the increase. Deal-making by investment banks in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan rose to a four-year high in the year to date, with announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A) reaching $469.5b. That was 12.4%...
Standard Chartered has teamed up with BlackRock to launch an Asia-Pacific (APAC) multi-asset fund that includes liquid alternatives. The fund, named the Signature Select APAC Allocation Plus Fund, offers investors exposure to the APAC region through investments in equities, fixed...
Hong Kong’s asset and wealth management industry managed a record HK$42.2 trillion (US$5.4 trillion) of assets last year, 20% more than in 2024 and erasing the previous all-time high set in 2021. It was driven partly by a 193% surge...
Assets of large commercial banks grew faster than that of join-stock commercial banks. Assets held by China’s banking institutions rose 8% year-on-year in Q1 2026, with large commercial banks assets’ rising double-digits whilst joint stock banks grew at a slower...
Global bond yields expected to move relatively more stable if oil prices remain near their current levels, says expert. Global bond markets faced selling pressure in the first six months of the year amid escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle...
Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) has chosen two US firms as global custodians for its 929 trillion won (US$619 billion) in foreign assets. State Street Bank and Trust and Bank of New York Mellon (BNY) were named as first and...
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek plans to increase its private credit allocation to five per cent of its portfolio value, as it looks to the asset class to drive higher returns. In the state-owned investment firm’s financial year results, the...
In a recent note, the Bank of Canada (BoC) examined whether central clearing of repurchase agreements (repos) provides benefits not only to bank-owned dealers but also to non-dealer market participants in Canadian fixed income markets. Overall, researchers show evidence that...
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) reported an investment gain of 41.4 trillion yen (US$286 billion) for its financial year ended March 31, the second highest on record and a 24-fold increase from the previous year as stock markets...
