Market Views: Are investments in Asia’s private markets drying up?
Investors appear to have reset their short-term expectations and risk tolerance across asset classes due to higher-than-expected inflation, the rise of interest rates, and the war in Ukraine.
Fundraising in capital markets globally has fallen by more than $900 billion in the first quarter from the same period in 2021 as surging inflation, war in Ukraine and volatile asset prices delayed stock listings and hampered bond deals, according to the Financial Times.
In the first three months of 2022, businesses raised just $2.3 trillion overall through equity sales and loan markets, down from $3.2 trillion just one year ago. It was the smallest sum for the last six years, acc…
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