Title: Commodities & New Energy: Core Drivers of Global Capital Restructuring in 2025
In the volatile international landscape of 2025, commodities and new energy have emerged as core drivers behind the global reshaping of capital allocation. From turbulence in traditional energy systems to the acceleration of green transitions, financial investment offices and institutional investors are reevaluating their asset allocation strategies to pursue both stable returns and long-term strategic positioning.
1. Geopolitics and the Repricing of Commodities
The Russia-Ukraine war, the Red Sea crisis, and a new wave of U.S. tariff policies continue to disrupt global supply chains, causing extreme volatility in the prices of crude oil, natural gas, copper, lithium, and other key commodities. Paradoxically, these disruptions have opened up windows for arbitrage and hedging strategies.
Since 2022, our Financial Capital Investment Office has been strategically adjusting its resource allocations. We have built systematic trading models in ultra-short-term trading for spot gold, copper mining, and agricultural commodity ETFs. In a climate of persistent inflation concerns, safe-haven assets like gold continue to serve as anchors of portfolio stability.
2. New Energy: More Than Policy-Driven, Now a Core Battleground for Capital
Over the past decade, new energy investment has often been misunderstood as merely a byproduct of policy incentives. However, sectors such as solar PV, hydrogen, wind, energy storage, rare earths, cobalt, and lithium are rapidly becoming strategic frontiers for global capital.
We focus not only on the technologies themselves, but also on the broader industrial chains and the emerging reshaping of global capital flows behind them. For instance, in 2023, we made a strategic entry into green hydrogen leader Linde, invested in European carbon trading platforms, and partnered with Hong Kong and Singapore-based funds to deploy capital into new energy ports and floating LNG terminals.
3. Capital Flow Trends: Shifting from "Stable Allocation" to "Thematic Strategic Penetration"
As representatives of patient capital, financial investment offices are pivoting from traditional region-based diversification toward theme-driven strategies, focusing on energy security, global resource sovereignty, and industrialization of emerging markets.
This trend has driven us to refine our internal investment structure into three layers:
- Top Layer: Macro trend forecasting and cross-cycle insight (with Cohen Godfather as the core strategist)
- Middle Layer: Trading model design and high-frequency execution (spanning gold, commodity ETFs, FX, and other high-liquidity markets)
- Base Layer: Project due diligence and risk control, particularly in emerging market deployments (e.g., lithium mines in Africa, natural gas assets in Latin America, and green ports in Singapore)
4. Looking Ahead: More Than Returns—A Statement of Strategic Influence
For us, capital is not merely a tool for profit. It is a lever for reshaping the global order. Through the strategic deployment of commodities and new energy investments, we aim not only to hedge against systemic risks in traditional markets but to lead in the next energy revolution—achieving both financial return and global influence.
In the future, those who master global resource allocation may no longer be nation-states alone, but capital alliances with foresight, global reach, and robust execution capabilities. We are committed to becoming one of those leading forces.