Global capital flows

Chasing global capital: South-east Asia markets turn to ‘value up’ reforms

2026-06-22T23:00:00.000Z
Malaysia ranks 23rd globally on the Milken Institute’s global opportunity index.

South-east Asian markets account for 8.8% of global capital inflows from 2021 to 2024: report

2026-04-08T23:00:00.000Z
Drawn by cheap valuations and the need to diversify portfolios, foreign funds have poured US$337 million into South-east Asia’s emerging markets in December.

Return of global funds puts South-east Asia in spotlight for 2026

2025-12-29T01:22:17.000Z
A string of unfinished trade deals could give Trump a pretext to roll back tariffs if the economic pain becomes too much to bear.
MARK TO MARKET

Trump’s trade deals may support the S&P 500, offering nervous investors an opportunity to sell

2025-05-11T23:00:00.000Z
Net flows into foreigners’ portfolios could hit US$259 billion, from US$161 billion in 2023, as China, a massive source of outflows over the last two years, modestly recovers.

Capital flows to emerging markets to net US$903 billion in 2024, IIF says

2024-05-30T14:17:33.000Z
At the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, Kenyan President William Ruto proposed granting African countries a ten-year “grace period” on interest payments.

The great sovereign debt conundrum

2023-09-25T08:00:00.000Z
Japan, which co-chairs with Indonesia this year’s meeting of Asean+3 nations, hopes to discuss the idea of strengthening currency swap lines known as Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM).

Asian nations to debate Japan’s bid to beef up market safeguards

2023-04-28T02:05:16.000Z
Janus Henderson Investors says that while lending conditions have tightened for the past nine months, the banking turmoil in March accelerated the trend, bringing forward a likely recession.

Corporate access to capital worsens after bank turmoil: Janus Henderson

2023-04-25T11:08:23.000Z
Excluding China, the region experienced net inflows of nearly US$600 million. However, this sum was still lower than the US$1.3 billion of net inflows in the previous quarter, said Morningstar.

ESG funds in Asia ex-Japan record US$660m in outflows in Q3, says Morningstar

2022-10-28T13:04:15.000Z
Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam speaking at a panel on transition finance on Tuesday (Oct 4), with Egypt's Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat.

Global capital markets overprice risks and overreact to shocks: Tharman

2022-10-04T10:39:12.000Z