03/14/2018
Growth Lifts Southeast Asian Banks’ Earnings
The bank’s revenue jumped 43% in its wealth management division, which includes income from activities such as insurance and private banking, Nikkei reported.
Comment, Analysis & Research
03/14/2018
Data – An elixir for Asia’s wealth industry?
Data is not just renewing itself, it is proliferating.
03/14/2018
Private Equity Funds Year-in-Review – A Lookback at 2017 and the Outlook for 2018: International Private Equity Funds
According to a Preqin survey conducted in December 2017, 53 percent of institutional investors globally plan to increase their allocation to private equity over the long term
03/14/2018
HNWIs give a boost to resurgent art market: Research
The US remains the largest market for art buyers, but China has overtaken the UK for second place.
03/14/2018
Australia’s NAB says incentives ‘root cause’ of fraud
“So from a very early point, NAB was aware that a driver for these ... fraudulent behaviours was its own remuneration structure,” Rowena Orr, a barrister assisting the inquiry, said on Wednesday.
03/14/2018
New Business Models and Emerging Technologies are Enabling FinTech Companies to Improve Financial Inclusion, Report Says
These companies are mission-driven but are also focused on providing attractive risk-adjusted returns to their investors.
03/14/2018
Annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report Released
A comprehensive and macro-level analysis of today's international art market, the report covers key trends in the market in the context of wider economic shifts.
03/14/2018
Hedge funds warn of an upcoming flashpoint with China as trade concerns grow
The U.S. Trade Representative's office is due to rule on an investigation into China's policies.
03/13/2018
Asset and wealth management CEOs optimistic about growth but aware of looming disruption – PwC survey
However just 38% of the interviewed CEOs believe that robotics and alternative intelligence (AI) can improve the consumer experience.
03/13/2018
Australia Islamic finance blooms under the radar
The country in fact has a substantial number of Islamic finance service providers which offer a broad scope of Shariah-compliant finance products ranging from house financing, Islamic pensions, wealth management to halal superannuation funds and takaful.
03/12/2018
PE Panorama: Where expectations and outcomes move in opposite directions
It’s also a powerful incentive for putting off the evil day when you finally have to come clean with pensioners.
03/12/2018
Philippine Bank Supervisor Takes Aim at Male-Dominated Boards
The career central banker joins a growing global momentum to break down barriers to gender equality in senior corporate and government roles. In the Philippines, men hold 82 percent of the 265 board seats at the nation’s biggest lenders and some ban
03/11/2018
Chinese banks sixth-largest global creditor group: BIS
This refers to a situation in which several countries borrow from just a few big international banks, raising the risk that losses in one country encourage the banks to withdraw from other borrower countries as well.
03/09/2018
CISI leads with global “competitive edge” campaign to keep members at the top of their game
The artwork was produced by the CISI’s marketing team with support from design agency W3 based in Kelvedon, Essex.
03/08/2018
Population of wealthy Indians to grow 71% by 2022: Report
The country is also expected to become the third largest contributor in Asia with respect to wealthy population after China and Japan, it said.
03/08/2018
The Rarefied World of Asia Private Banking, Where Women Rule
Some of the region's most senior wealth managers are female.
03/08/2018
Demand from investors drives shift towards sustainable business in Asia
Firms are upping their environmental, social and governance game as asset managers offer their clients more sustainable investment funds in the region
03/08/2018
More female clients requires more female advisers
This sentiment is shared by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors which is again calling on listed Australian companies to consider the gender diversity of their boards.
03/08/2018
BlackRock worries about China trade tensions as Asia funds brace
Equity markets across Asia have had a tumultuous week amid the departure of Gary Cohn from the White House and the rise of trade hawks.
03/08/2018
"Life Insurance Industry: Riding the Technology Wave"
Address by Mr Ong Chong Tee, Deputy Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore, at LIA Annual Luncheon on 7 March 2018