Asia Asset Management

4 days ago | asiaasset.com | Anthony Rowley

Asia Global Japan Japan moves to build on success of the NISA tax exempt investment scheme That which Japan does not invent itself, it often improves upon. This is certainly true of the Nippon Individual Savings Account (NISA) scheme which was launched in 2014. The tax exemption programme for private investors was modelled originally al...

1 week ago | asiaasset.com | Anthony Rowley

The European Union is accelerating its drive to integrate the bloc’s capital markets in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff shocks and their impact on financial markets. Asia’s plans are not as well advanced yet, but the growth of the region’s bond markets over almost three decades have been spectacular.

3 weeks ago | asiaasset.com | Anthony Rowley

US tariffs are becoming more like a game of poker than a serious economic strategy as President Donald Trump seeks to bluff his way to a winning hand position while assuming that others have few cards to play. But this is no game where global financial markets are concerned. Nor is the 90-day truce declared between the US and China in their tit-for-tat trade war - with seemingly significant concessions on the part of both Washington and Beijing - likely to allay fears.

1 month ago | asiaasset.com | Goh Thean Eu

Infrastructure investments have become increasingly popular among asset owners such as pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds. As long-term investors, they are drawn to assets like transportation, energy and digital networks to diversify portfolios and earn stable, inflation-protected returns. Singapore wealth fund GIC Pte Ltd, for instance, has increased the share of infrastructure investments to 13% of assets from 10%.

1 month ago | asiaasset.com | Anthony Rowley

The economic impact of Trump’s tariffs and other trade measures has hogged the headlines since the US president announced his “Liberation Day” on April 2. But the story of what is happening in the global financial system as a direct and indirect result of these measures has remained largely untold. Until last week, that is, when some indications of potentially systemic financial sector problems began to emerge during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.