Morningstar’s Q1 2026 Asia Investment Outlook: Finding Value in the New Year

As the markets enter the new year, the challenges that 2025 faced are still relevant today: tariffs, interest rates, and geopolitics, and these challenges—and undoubtedly others—are likely to keep pressuring the markets into 2026. Trade tensions and tariffs remain a real threat to the market, despite the US and China reaching a trade deal, as do interest rates and inflation. What’s uncertain about 2026 is whether AI will have a positive or negative influence on the market and whether the AI boom is over. There are a lot of outcomes that could happen in the year ahead, but even amid volatility, not all hope is lost for investors finding sound investments. Join Morningstar’s Lorraine Tan, Director of Equity Research, Asia, Chelsey Tam, Senior Equity Analyst, Equity Research, Germaine Share, Director, Manager Research, Asia, and Hunter Beaudoin, Analyst, Manager Research, Asia, for their analysis of the markets and where investment opportunities exist across asset classes. In this webinar, we will: - Examine key themes and recent performance across the Asian stock market - Explore the role AI may play for stocks this year and what investors should consider when investing in AI-related investments - Highlight which trends are shaping Asian portfolio managers’ strategies in 2026 - Dive into up-and-coming fund strategies that have caught our attention