Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

China Focus: Foreign banks seek to add value to China's Belt and Road Initiative

The contract value of newly-signed contracted engineering projects in countries along the route was 47.79 billion U.S. dollars.

What Asian investors can learn from UK pensions

Britain’s well developed pensions industry, with some 3 trillion $4 trillion in assets

Building trust, the DBS way

For the bank, it is about instituting a culture of doing the right thing, as well as having supporting frameworks and processes in place.

The Art of the Deal-by-Deal by Marc Parrott, Harneys

The low cost of rolling out new Portfolios make an SPC a potentially preferable structure to creating entirely separate companies each time that a particular underlying deal is proposed.

Impact Investments Approach $6bn Impact investments approach $6bn

The products analysed included social impact bonds, green bonds, private equity, property and infrastructure.

UBS's Harford: We are absolutely invested in China

Fed's view of the economy and how trade is impacting investment strategy.

Currency swaps through Renminbi Clearing Centre boost UAE- China trade

Swaps through the Center grew consistently, increasing a further 42% in H1 2018

Advisers grapple with client retention

The good news is professional standards reform is helping restore the reputation of the industry, Investment Trends research reveals.

Wealthier Aussies seeking advice

Victorians (11.4%) and men (10.5%) are the only other cohorts with an above average tendency to seek advice.

New research cautions banks on exiting wealth

The Roy Morgan research found that one third of wealth management customers who were in the top 20 per cent of the market by value had used a financial planner

Japan’s MUFG is a case study in how one Tokyo lender has once again become a major player in emerging Asia

Japanese banks have become more outwardly focused in recent years, recapturing some of the market share they held in emerging Asia in the 1990s

US-China trade war may affect overall deal appetite: Brenda Lau of Indosuez

Brenda Lau, senior director and head of Indosuez, says the wealth management firm has taken a cautious approach to doing PE deals in India

Family offices maintain equity allocations: Study

Survey participants reported a 13.9% average portfolio return for 2017

Asset management: new guide supports continuous improvement

We wanted to produce something simple that people could readily follow and implement

Coursera to offer transformative learning to Bank of Singapore employees

Coursera, the global leader in online education today announced its partnership with Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC Bank.

Active fund management works well for debt funds

Active fund management offers many benefits for investors that go well beyond just security selection and beating an index.

Singapore Banks Face Softer Loan Growth

Growth in home equity loans and a hot property market at home is a key driver of profits for DBS, UOB, and OCBC

Follow the flows: Investing according to fund flow data

The data Commerzbank uses is based on 15 years of history and today comprises more than $30 trillion of assets, which are growing fast.

Investors Have Never Been So Bearish On Asia Bonds, Survey Shows

Asia’s dollar bond market has been in turmoil since the beginning of the year as oversupply caused indigestion amid rising yields

Building the Digital Silk Road

With the UAE’s strategic geographical position between east and west, companies in the country stand to be among the top beneficiaries of the BRI.

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