A private market equivalent benchmark is superior to either peer group benchmarks or a public market equivalent in measuring private equity and infrastructure manager outperformance, according to Frederic Blanc-Brude, director of Scientific Infra & Private Assets at EDHEC Asia Pacific.
After years of underperformance the Chinese stock market had strong gains at the beginning of 2025, giving investors confidence that the country might be getting some of its pre-COVID mojo back.
Despite the uptick in anti-ESG sentiment that’s come with Donald Trump’s return to the White House, large institutional investors are certain that innovations in transition technology will continue and that the broader world has not changed course on the journey to decarbonisation.
President Trump is dramatically reshaping geopolitics, creating new risks and opportunities for investors across the Asia-Pacific.
With the ability to uncover hard-to-find information and enable more frequent trading in traditionally illiquid asset classes, new technologies like artificial intelligence and tokenisation could be the biggest disruption most private markets investors will see in their lifetime.
Capital markets continue to be a key battlefield of power between Beijing and Washington, and whether the yuan has a serious chance of taking over the dollar as the international currency is the next big question for the world economic order.
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