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2 weeks ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Amid the increasing trend of the market to leverage sustainable financing to fund energy-intensive data centres - a sector that is booming because of the rising power consumption involved in artificial intelligence ( AI )-related computing - the sustainability practices of some data centres are worrying investors, according to a recent report.
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2 weeks ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Islamic financial instruments continue to evolve, but their growth is facing numerous challenges, including stringent requirements for Shariah law compliance that restrict the source and purpose of funds, a new report finds. According to Fitch Ratings' Islamic Finance Survey 2025, liquidity management and funding constraints pose the biggest challenges to the further development of Islamic finance.
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3 weeks ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
The commercial real estate market in the Asia-Pacific region held firm in the first quarter of 2025, with total transaction volume reaching US$32.8 billion, representing a slight 1% dip from the previous quarter but posting an 11% increase year on year, according to a recent report.
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3 weeks ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
While corporates pared down social bond issuance with the cooling of interest in such products following the arrival of the new US presidential administration, global financial institutions and supernational issuers picked up the slack in the first quarter of 2025 to narrow the decline, according to a recent report.
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3 weeks ago | 
cn.theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
By Jayde Cheung While corporates pared down social bond issuance with the cooling of interest in such products following the arrival of the new US presidential administration, global financial institutions and supernational issuers picked up the slack in the first quarter of 2025 to narrow the decline, according to a recent report.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Deepening trade ties between India and Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) countries are opening more cross-investment opportunities, with a focus on energy and logistics, while reducing the potential impact of tariffs from the United States. In 2024, India invested 52.3 billion dirhams ( US$14.2 billion ) in Dubai, data from fDi Markets show, making Asia's fastest-growing major economy the largest foreign investor in the Arab emirate.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
In an effort to staunch losses and capture opportunities in the bond market, foreign investors in India with a positive sentiment on the country's growth story have pivoted away from equities.
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2 months ago | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Vietnam's technology sector is attracting unprecedented interest from foreign investors. For the first two months of 2025, the rapidly developing Southeast Asian economy drew US$6.9 billion in foreign direct investment ( FDI ), up 35.5% from the same period last year. While the manufacturing and real estate sectors continued to gain the biggest slices of the FDI pie, the amount flowing to science and technology surged 86% to US$354.6 million during the period, the biggest growth among all sectors.
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2 months ago | 
cn.theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
By Jayde Cheung Since the 2008 global financial crisis, emerging market ( EM ) equities have underperformed their developed market ( DM ) counterparts by almost 5% annually, prompting investors to reassess the role of EM in their equity allocations. This underperformance is in stark contrast to the burgeoning growth of EM economies, according to a new report.
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
theasset.com | Jayde Cheung
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, emerging market ( EM ) equities have underperformed their developed market ( DM ) counterparts by almost 5% annually, prompting investors to reassess the role of EM in their equity allocations. This underperformance is in stark contrast to the burgeoning growth of EM economies, according to a new report. The number of EM securities has doubled since 1998.
