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The Hong Kong single family office is selectively underwriting niche tech and capital market allocations while maintaining a highly focused real-asset strategy.

As concerns grow over shrinking illiquidity premiums, experts explain how they determine whether private credit still yields sufficient return to justify locking up capital.

Japan Investment Corporation is funding strategic tech while respecting the autonomy of global partners like Y Combinator to boost Japan's international competitiveness.

La Caisse has teamed up with agricultural investor Go.Farm on a $234 million platform for irrigated permanent crops, tapping surging demand for Australian farmland.

While the US remains the commercial benchmark, Asia’s ecosystems are rapidly scaling, anchored by state-backed funds, regulatory reforms and sovereign ambitions.

While Korea and Taiwan lead growth in the sector, risks remain, underscoring the need for diversification across asset classes, according to a report by UBS.

Regulator ASIC is stepping up scrutiny of private credit following rising defaults, valuation uncertainty and redemption pressures in markets like the US and Europe.

Danantara to acquire a stake in Indonesia Stock Exchange; PIF ramps up privatisation drive; GIC and Macquarie partner with Anthropic on US data centre platform; Singapore mulls $500m fund to climate-proof food system; and more.

Investors are now targeting deeper supply chain plays, infrastructure needs and structural governance reform beneficiaries in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan.

Tokyo’s drive for pension funds to boost domestic allocations is reshaping how international investors view Japan.

The single family office concentrates on active asset repositioning and disciplined financing as higher costs reshape overseas property investing.

Long-term structural shifts in technology, energy security and regional supply chains are prompting investors to broaden their allocations across copper, critical minerals and agricultural assets in the second half (H2) of 2026.