Genevieve Cua

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Editor at The Business Times (Singapore)

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Overcoming challenges in sustainable finance

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

Helge Muenkel, chief sustainability officer, DBS Victor Wong, head of sustainability office, UOB Asset Management Mike Ng, group chief sustainability officer, OCBC BT: Sustainable investing has ebbed and flowed along with market sentiment and political winds. Why are investors hesitant, and what needs to be done to get climate-aware investing into the mainstream? Helge Muenkel: We have witnessed continuous improvement and strong efforts to transition our global economies to a net-zero future.
Going green in a multi-polar world

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

BY HOW much has the world progressed in climate mitigation and abatement? A cursory look may be disheartening. 2024 was the hottest year on record; it was the first calendar year when temperatures rose by 1.55 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial level. At the same time, geopolitical crises drove demand for fossil fuels; economic uncertainty also cast doubt on climate pledges.
KKR eyes bigger share of private wealth market as it targets US$1 trillion total AUM

1 month ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

[SINGAPORE] Asset manager KKR is one of the largest globally in private markets, but it is hungry for yet more capital to deploy into "very long, interesting ideas", said KKR partner Alisa Wood. To this end, the company has redoubled efforts to garner a larger share of the US$150 trillion private wealth market, where consulting firm Bain reckons alternative investments account for just 5 per cent.
Moody's downgrade of US credit rating challenges portfolio allocations

1 month ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

[SINGAPORE] Moody's downgrade of the US' credit rating by a notch (Aaa to Aa1) shouldn't have come as a big surprise. Earlier downgrades by S&P in 2011 and Fitch in 2023 have raised expectations that Moody's would be next; it was only a question of when.
Singapore's wealthy want advisers to incorporate AI into offerings: survey

1 month ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

[SINGAPORE] Private wealth clients in Singapore expect their wealth managers or advisers to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into their offerings, more than clients globally or in the Asia-Pacific (Apac), the 2025 EY Global Wealth Research Report has found. This expectation was named by 74 per cent of Singapore respondents, compared with the global average of 60 per cent and 72 per cent in Apac.
Are investors hitting the 'pause' button on sustainable investing?

1 month ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

[SINGAPORE] Sustainable investing was all the rage some years ago, but its shine appears to be fading. What would it take to revive investor interest? Morningstar's latest fund flows data for global sustainable funds in the first quarter found "record-high" outflows mainly in the US - which isn't a surprise - but also in Europe, albeit to a more modest degree.
Private-market assets not a panacea for returns

1 month ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

INTEREST in private-markets investing has never been greater. Mutual fund giants are partnering some of the best-known names in private assets, and are rolling out funds that retail investors can access. But pointed questions are also being raised – more so at this time than before – on whether private-market assets can live up to the hype going forward. They are not a panacea for returns, and tend to underperform in a bull market.
‘Exodus’ of US assets set to intensify, says strategist

2 months ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

GLOBAL investors are rotating out of US assets not because of uncertainty over tariffs, says strategist Marko Papic of BCA Research, but because non-US assets are more attractive, particularly as the US dollar is expected to weaken over time. Papic wrote in a recent note: “The big picture is that the market narrative of US exceptionalism is dead. So, it doesn’t really matter what happens with the trade war.
“Exodus” out of US assets set to intensify, says strategist

2 months ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

GLOBAL investors are rotating out of US assets not because of uncertainty over tariffs, says strategist Marko Papic of BCA Research, but because non-US assets are more attractive, particularly as the US dollar is expected to weaken over time. Papic wrote in a recent note: “The big picture is that the market narrative of US exceptionalism is dead. So, it doesn’t really matter what happens with the trade war.
Azalea’s next challenge: Private equity investing for the mass affluent

2 months ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Genevieve Cua

[SINGAPORE] Azalea Investment Management, which pioneered the Astrea series of Singapore Exchange-listed private equity (PE) backed bonds, has arguably fulfilled its mission of democratising retail investors’ access to PE – or a structure close to it. Over the past decade, it has raised a total of US$3.6 billion for Astrea bonds, including nearly S$1.3 billion in retail subscriptions. Three of the bond issuances have been fully redeemed.