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2026 Mid-Year Investment Outlook: Tap into Asia’s Innovation and Income

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Tap into Asia’s Innovation and Income

by Desmond Kuang, Chief Investment Officer, China, HSBC Private Bank and Premier Wealth
May 21, 2026

Asia isn’t a single trade — it’s a selective quest for undervalued innovation and durable income.

Asia sits at the centre of the global AI build-out, combining production scale with fast-rising digital demand. That backdrop is still underappreciated by markets, even as capital spending accelerates across the AI supply chain and Asia Pacific’s data-centre capacity is forecast to more than double by 2030, reaching around 40 per cent of global capacity.

In this video, our China CIO, Desmond Kuang, posits our barbell approach designed to capture differentiated winners while keeping portfolios anchored. On the growth side, we focus on Asia’s Data Centre Boom and China’s Tech and Manufacturing Leaders, where policy support, corporate capex and step-up upgrades in software and semiconductors are driving a new phase of commercial deployment. On the income side, we pair Power Up Asian Shareholder Returns with High Quality Asian Credit, to stabilise portfolio returns while still capturing attractive yields and diversifying portfolio exposure.

The result is a selective, conviction-led framework for investors seeking both innovation exposure and resilient income across Asia.
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