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The Chinese life insurer is also keeping its eye on undervalued Hong Kong equities to boost its $11 billion overseas investment portfolio.

We've summarised the key takeaways from our March markets outlook

Emerging markets in Asia remain a bright spot on the investment horizon. Emerging Asia, which includes China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, has outperformed other emerging markets during the past two decades. The IMF has penciled in annual GDP growth of 4.6% for emerging and developing Asia in 2022, rising to 5% in 2023.

CME Group’s Volatility Indexes (CVOL) have emerged as a handy tool for gauging volatility across different markets and asset classes, such as energy, agriculture, foreign exchange and treasuries. The COVID-19 pandemic, soaring inflation and the Federal Reserve’s efforts to contain it, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and other factors have the U.S. stock market on track for one of its most volatile years ever. But volatility in one market is not necessarily comparable, or useful for quick day-to-day trading decisions, to volatility in another.

WTI crude oil prices fell 25% in the third quarter, but amid economic uncertainty and geopolitical risks, volatility has shown little sign of weakening.