Astana as Bridge: From Financial Centre to Family Office and Private-Capital Hub
Central Asia is entering a new phase of economic development. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are attracting rising international investment, regional capital markets are deepening, entrepreneurial wealth is accumulating, and a new generation of business owners is beginning to think seriously about succession, diversification and the preservation of family wealth. Yet one part of the region’s financial…
Next Opportunity in Central Asian Wealth Management: Singapore-AIFC Corridor
For much of the past three decades, the international wealth-management conversation has centred on a relatively small number of financial centres: Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, London and until Donald Trump’s special military operation against Iran, Dubai. Central Asia has rarely featured prominently in that discussion. That may be beginning to change. Kazakhstan’s Astana International Financial…
Investment Outlook for Kazakhstan Equities: Strategic Allocation to Eurasia’s Hidden Blue-Chip Market
In life and on the investment journey, it is often said that it is the journey that counts, or it is the “journey” that is the reward. Kazakhstan became the first country of the former Soviet Union to receive an international investment credit rating in September 2002. According to Bloomberg data, tenge is the sixth…
Kazakhstan’s Assets Shine as Global Investors Seek New Frontiers
U.S. President Donald J. Trump vowed to make the stock market great again and to bring “Liberation Day” to global trade and tariff agreements. While the U.S. stock market and dollar-denominated assets continue to dominate most private and institutional investment portfolios as part of U.S. exceptionalism, Central Asian countries and their stock, currency and capital…
