03/19/2018
India Loses Highest Percentage of Millionaires Through Migration
Nearly 23,000 millionaires have left India since 2014, according to Ruchir Sharma, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.
Comment, Analysis & Research
03/16/2018
5 Truths About Global Compliance
Many organisations struggle complying with their worldwide spread duties.
03/16/2018
Next China Central Bank Chief's Hands May Be Tied – by Xi: BNP
“No matter whether or not the person is very liberalized, he or she won’t be able to go outside the framework Beijing has already set.”
03/16/2018
India's millennial millionaire class hot favourite among asset managers
Nirmal Jain's IIFL Holdings, which manages money for 10,000 ultra high networth individuals more than doubled in the past 12 months
03/16/2018
US risks missing the boat in Vietnam
Donald Trump's lurch towards protectionism will hinder American access to one of Asia's fastest rising economies
03/15/2018
Moody’s sees global Islamic bond issuance stay at US$100 billion level in 2018
The corporate and asset-backed sukuk market had a muted 2017 as issuers sought more attractive opportunities in the conventional bond market, and Moody’s forecasts more of the same this year.
03/15/2018
Japan's financial groups spot opportunity in Chinese deregulation
SMBC and Nomura move quickly to increase presence in mainland market
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.
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.