12/17/2015
Michael Smith: ANZ's rough diamond bows out
Smith hasn’t always been applauded for his socalled superregional strategy and has had to show patience against oftenstrong market opposition.
Comment, Analysis & Research
12/17/2015
Banking sector still tied up in red tape
Yet after a long preparatory period, the establishment of the community is close at hand and banks are still looking for tangible benefits.
12/17/2015
Why China's women are being pursued by wealth managers and property agents
China’s damas have plenty of spare cash to invest, and a good sales attitude matters more to them than solid professional knowledge, say wealth managers
12/17/2015
Thiam’s grab for bigger slice of Asia pie brings costs, risks
The 53-year-old Ivory Coast native was brought in to rebuild investor confidence and improve returns squeezed by tougher capital standards.
12/16/2015
Cashed up private equity firms set for busy 2016
Private equity firms are tipped to be busier spending $5.5 billion of capital in 2016, rather than exiting investments, despite fierce competition for assets from strategic local and offshore buyers.
12/16/2015
Asian Institutional Funds To Channel $240B Into Global Property Market By 2020
Asia Pacific institutions, which include sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and insurance companies, are sitting on massive wealth that amounts to nearly $15 trillion as of the start of 2015.
12/16/2015
Online platform for asset management launched
Firm’s Assistant Vice-President marketing Sudip Kumar Mandal told reporters here that IFAXpress was a strategic initiative for IFA community, conceived to ease the transaction process and offer a seamless and superior client-servicing experience.
12/15/2015
PH economy seen to sustain growth momentum
Impact of weaker global economy on remittances, not election results, seen to pose risks
12/15/2015
HSBC Leads Asian Fixed-income Market
Greenwich Associates Announces 2015 Share and Quality Leaders
12/15/2015
Risk, ruin and the unknown unknowns of the finance sector
The shockwaves from forced sovereign wealth selling will gut the world's commercial property markets, infrastructure and private equity funds
12/15/2015
Singapore’s 40 most influential lawyers aged 40 and under in 2015
The list recognizes the 40 young lawyers in the city-state who have shaped the legal industry inside and outside the courtroom, or on the negotiating table.
12/15/2015
Once a billionaire, not always a billionaire
The report examined the differences between billionaires’ wealth creation, preservation and philanthropic practices across the U.S., Europe and Asia.
12/15/2015
Billionaire women on the rise, especially in Asia - UBS
Asia has seen the strongest growth rates for female billionaires over the last decade, to 25 from three.
12/15/2015
China’s Most Successful Business Leaders Are Not Safe At Home
Guo Guangchang, whose disappearance in mid-December sent shock waves through China’s business community
12/14/2015
Banks trumpet bumper year of ‘elephant’ takeover deals
It looked like 2015 would break all merger and acquisition records – and it did
12/14/2015
Coutts Global Markets Weekly: Japan swoops up out of recession
A revision in Japan’s gross domestic product (GDP) data last week tallies with our own positive ‘top down’ view on Japanese equities, highlighted in our Investment Outlook 2016, which was released last week.
12/14/2015
Bain & Co tips one in three bank branches to close
Australian banks are already doing a better job than their US counterparts
12/14/2015
The plot develops for commercial property
According to the data from Cushman & Wakefield, office space occupancy in the top eight cities increased 32 per cent
12/14/2015
Wealthy mainland Chinese back into Hong Kong super-luxury home market
Lam said mainlanders hesitated to enter the market in the past two years because of the introduction of buyers’ stamp duty in 2012
12/14/2015
HSBC Says Women Entrepreneurs Are More Likely To Be Successful In Asia
The research also found that self-made women in Asia start businesses on average five years earlier — when they’re 29, instead of in their mid-thirties.