Southeast Asian family offices are the world’s most AI-committed investors at 88%. The conglomerates they own cannot execute on that conviction. Three institutional surveys confirm the gap. None connect it.
The World’s Most AI-Committed Investors Run Companies That Cannot Deploy It
When oil hit USD 100, Southeast Asia’s CFOs were already managing three simultaneous capital pressures: a structural shift to all-cash M&A, accelerating portfolio disposals and an AI investment pipeline blocked not by money but by talent. The Hormuz shock didn’t create the squeeze. It exposed it.
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