Japanese pension giant Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has adopted a cautious approach to investing in alternatives by prioritising those with lower liquidity and using a combination of metrics to assess the performance. The pension fund began investing in non-mainstream...
This will allow them to accept a wider range of collateral in their facilities. Brunei and Singapore have inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to establish a reciprocal cross-border collateral arrangement. This arrangement will allow both authorities to accept a wider...
Yearly growth in GDP at 1.2%, quarterly at 0.3% in Q2, driven mainly by growth in construction, services outputs. The UK's economy expanded 0.3% on a quarterly basis in the second quarter of the year, exceeding market estimates, according to...
Stagflationary effects will hit the U.S. hardest, Canada and Mexico at risk too. The U.S. economy stands to suffer the most in terms of weaker growth and higher inflation from its trade war, with Canada and Mexico next in line...
Retail assets greater than pension funds for first time. Data published by the UK’s Investment Association (IA) point to record AUM of £10trn across the industry as at the end of 2024, up some 10% on the previous year following...
The south-east Asian nation comes ahead of Kyrgyzstan among the region’s FDI overachievers. Cambodia ranks as the leading Asia-Pacific country in the Greenfield FDI Performance Index 2025, and ninth overall. The south-east Asian nation recorded a record year for inbound FDI...
Global ETF inflows hit $900 billion in the first half of 2025 — a 25% jump from a year earlier — with State Street Corporation supporting a record pace of new product launches. The Boston-based institutional investment servicing, management, research...
Its Q3 net interest margins come in at 1.99%, compared with 1.92% a year ago. Australia’s Westpac Banking said wider margins and lending and deposits gains helped it post slightly higher third-quarter profit, sending its shares surging more than 5...
But the digital assets space has amassed nearly equal to its total 2024 investments. Fintech investments and deals slowed considerably in the first half of 2025 on ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade policies, said KPMG. Total fintech investment— including mergers &...
Amid volatility swings in public markets, both investors and borrowers continue to seek out private credit, according to CVC research. The alternative asset manager’s second-quarter credit report said that European direct lending is up by 44 per cent and 56...
