Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Nuveen outlines financial link between climate and asset classes

Climate change represents a defining issue for the investor community.

1.58m Chinese millionaires the new focus for Asian asset managers: report

Foreign managers are allowed to operate in this space through wholly foreign-owned enterprises

Asia’s GFC deals 10 years on – so who won?

Sovereign funds and Japanese banks fared differently in their financial crisis deals. Nomura seems to have achieved the least.

Indonesia and the Emerging Markets Crisis

Despite last year’s stellar performance, emerging-market stresses have been building since at least 2013.

Asia’s Aversion to Bank Accounts Is a Big Deal

No economy that runs on cash will ever compete globally.

Asian family offices’ preference for emerging markets may prove painful in 2018

Slow progress on preparing for generational transfer

China Really Wants You To Know Financial Opening Is Happening

The push to open comes as China tries to de-risk its economy and plug financing gaps as its shadow banking sector shrinks.

For affluent Filipinos

Banks can start creating an asset allocation plan for you based on what you need and your profile as a financial customer.

From Japan to India, why investors shun bank shares in Asian markets

The plunge in Indian financial shares on Friday also roiled the nation’s stock market.

Philippines posts 22.9pc drop in cash remittance from Bahrain

Bahrain showed negative 22.9pc, transfers from Oman dropped by 38.3pc and Saudi Arabia showed a slide of 10.4pc.

Bank of Asia (BVI) Limited - a digital cross-border bank

Bank of Asia provides a range of banking services to the BVI

From Japan to India, Why Investors Shun Asia's Banking Shares

China faces trade war and slowdown, India bad-debt issue

Zero tax rate on pensions is right and fair

If that’s all that is said about them, then it’s an easy ‘social justice’ argument to say that they’re benefitting from a rort and should be made to pay more tax.

Pre-Marital Agreements and International Families living in Asia

Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are likely to witness substantial amounts of that wealth being transferred.

Global insurers keen to boost risk exposure, BlackRock survey finds

The new study found that 47% of insurers plan to increase their portfolio risk exposure over the next one to two years, sharply up from only 9% in the 2017 survey, BlackRock says in a statement on September 20.

Banks warned of unhappy customers as tech giants join fintechs as competition

A report from Capgemini has found satisfaction is low in customers and banks need to up their levels of personalisation if they want to keep customers from turning to tech giants and fintechs.

The Rise of Investment Migration

Demand for alternative residence and citizenship is now driving thousands of individuals to investment migration programs each year.

Impact banking: Putting the impact back into Islamic finance

Islamic finance has become too focused on getting arcane structures to be technically Shariah compliant, but a new initiative in Malaysia attempts to make Islamic finance socially positive once more – and to measure its success.

World Retail Banking Report 2018: Banks must respond to soaring customer expectations as non-traditional competition looms

The report also surveyed banking executives about the main causes of industry disruption.

Why Hong Kong should pause before cheering ‘ultra-rich’ win over New York

The government might believe that healthy economic development should be able to narrow the glaring wealth gap.

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