Author: Swati Kamble

In the fast-moving world of tech, reinvention is often talked about but rarely executed well. The tale of Nokia – once a Finnish paper mill, then a mobile phone titan, and now a telecom infrastructure player – is a rare example of corporate metamorphosis.

When Michael Burry – made famous by The Big Short – revealed he was betting against Palantir and Nvidia, it barely rattled the markets. Just days later, his hedge fund, Scion Asset Management, was being wound down. For a generation of investors who once revered him as the man who foresaw the 2008 crisis, it was a sobering moment.

For over three decades, Japan’s Nikkei 225 was the poster child for how long it can take a stock market to recover. After peaking at 38,957 in December 1989, the index entered a prolonged decline that mirrored the country’s economic stagnation, a lost decade that stretched well into a lost generation.

As geopolitical tensions tighten and trade alliances fracture, a new chapter in global economic strategy is taking shape, and it’s being written in Asia.

For more than two decades, China’s property sector stood at the heart of its economic expansion. From skylines rising in record time to a booming middle class investing in homes as their primary store of wealth, real estate was more than an asset class – it was an engine of growth.