Capital corridors
The corridors where the next decade of capital moves.
The engine was hardened where disclosure is thin, multilingual and unstandardised. That is the profile of most Asia-Pacific and emerging-market coverage, which makes the Asia corridor the market where our hardest capability is worth the most.
Read by true bearing from Johannesburg.
Select a corridor for published trade and capital figures, our position in it, and what we deliver there.
Each hub is drawn at its true initial bearing and great-circle distance from Johannesburg (azimuthal equidistant; rings at 5,000 and 10,000 km).
Africa and Hong Kong, China
- US$348bn
China–Africa trade, 2025
NTU Centre for African Studies, Jan 2026
- HK$35.1tn
Hong Kong assets under management, end-2024
SFC survey, Jul 2025
- 3,380
Single-family offices in Hong Kong, early 2026
HK Government, Mar 2026
- Half
Of the world’s digital bonds by volume issued in Hong Kong, H1 2026
HKMA, Sep 2026
Our Asia-Pacific capital and client channel, opened by our non-executive director: institutional, principal and family-office relationships across Hong Kong and the wider region.
- Corridor intelligence on trade, capital and settlement flows
- Asian investor mapping for co-investment
- Settlement-route cost analysis
A global allocation needs a map before it needs a manager.
The sovereign and state investors of Asia and the Gulf are the counterparties, co-investors and benchmarks for any African institution building a global allocation. We map them by sector, ticket and activity in Africa.
| Investor | Home | AUM, US$bn | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAFE Investment Co | China | 2,047 | Reserve and strategic capital |
| GPIF | Japan | 1,962 | A benchmark for policy-portfolio design |
| CIC | China | 1,567 | An alternatives-heavy direct investor |
| GIC | Singapore | 1,161 | Active in African real estate through specialist managers |
| ADIA | UAE | 1,128 | Infrastructure and energy co-investor |
| PIF | Saudi Arabia | 906 | Ports, energy and mining co-investor |
| HKMA Exchange Fund | Hong Kong | 533 | Hong Kong’s reserve manager; digital-bond settlement |
| Temasek | Singapore | 401 | An Asia-weighted portfolio and sovereign peer |
| KIC | Korea | 232 | A peer returns benchmark |
| Danantara | Indonesia | 230 | Indonesia’s new sovereign investor |
Fund sizes are Global SWF estimates, September 2026, except where the fund publishes its own.
Allocation map
The global allocation drawn by asset class and region, Asia included, run on your own reading of the target.
Co-investor mapping
Asian and Gulf sovereign, pension and family-office investors active in Africa, by sector and ticket.
Manager look-through
Third-party funds ingested into one register, so the global allocation is visible by name, not just by weight.
Settlement & corridor cost
The cost of getting capital there and back, per corridor and per route, including banks settling on tokenised rails.
Name the corridors that matter most to your allocation.
We run the allocation, co-investor and settlement analysis on your real flows, not on averages.