Investment heads at big UK life companies Aviva and Phoenix Group explain how they are thinking about geopolitical and macroeconomic issues in today’s uncharted waters.
Fixed Income
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The Hong Kong-based insurer sees opportunities to use its influence more effectively to help companies decarbonise, particularly in emerging Asia.
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Asia's robust economic backdrop is driving Asia-Pacific asset owners to increase allocations to the region's fixed income markets as a source of stable returns, a new State Street Global Advisors survey finds.
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Hong Kong insurers are eyeing opportunities in risk assets and emerging markets, buoyed by prospects of a softening US dollar and limited risk of a major US recession.
Asset owners in Greater China are expanding their use of ETFs for a wider range of portfolio use cases as the region offers more diverse products, according to a survey by Brown Brothers Harriman.
As the rate-cutting cycle approaches, fund managers are evaluating whether global and Asian high-yield bonds are becoming more appealing and how investors should approach the asset class.
The Fed’s rate pivot will change allocation preferences across asset classes and markets worldwide, delegates heard at AsianInvestor’s Insurance Investment Briefing in Singapore.
Asset managers share their expectations for the number and size of US interest rate cuts following the Federal Reserve chair's widely reported speech at Jackson Hole.
The Chinese insurance giant eyes a boost to its overseas assets when the long-awaited US monetary easing begins.
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A record $6.22 trillion is parked in US money market funds, mostly from institutional investors. As the Fed starts rate cuts, fund managers predict where the cash will flow.
Global fixed income dominated a bulk of the fixed income flows for Singapore-registered funds in the first half of the year, while Asian fixed income was another popular category.
