05/20/2021
Wealth Management: Using a conversational approach to attract and win clients.
Traditional forms of wealth management use face-to-face engagement when managing client relationships.
Comment, Analysis & Research
05/19/2021
How Much Inflation Do You Want Before You Believe It?
Thinking has become anchored on low inflation, low interest rates and easy policy.
05/19/2021
Financial wellbeing hits record high despite pandemic
Cautious spending and saving behaviour associated with the pandemic has ultimately resulted in a 7.8 per cent jump in financial wellbeing, new CommBank data has revealed.
05/18/2021
The Future of Family Offices in Asia: the Rise of Governance
Over the same period, the number of billionaires and millionaires in Asia-Pacific is set to rise by 46 percent and 37 percent respectively.
05/18/2021
How pandemic temporarily reduced Australia's wealth gap
“The Index shows, perhaps surprisingly, younger people doing slightly better than they have previously, closing what had been a record gap between generations,”
05/18/2021
Home buying, retail, entertainment spending intentions climb in April
Spending intentions across all seven categories march higher as Australian households recover from Covid-19 impacts, according to combined CBA and Google data for April.
05/17/2021
Covid Kills Over 1,000 Bank Employees as Virus Ravages India
The Press Trust of India on Friday reported that Debasish Panda, a senior federal government bureaucrat wrote to state authorities urging them to vaccinate bank and insurance employees against Covid on a priority basis.
05/14/2021
Islamic finance in Indonesia at a tipping point
“The Islamic finance market in Indonesia has a lot of potential,"
05/14/2021
More ultra-rich individuals interested in setting up family offices in Singapore
Experts point to Singapore's regulatory environment and geography as key factors in its attraction as an investment destination for the world's wealthy.
05/12/2021
Hong Kong to subsidise 70% of expenses for open-ended fund companies
The grant will operate for three years and will be given on a first come, first served basis.
05/11/2021
Malaysia’s Socso aims to cover 200,000 self-employed by year-end
There are now 142,000 active self-employed individuals registered with the organisation, twice the number at the end of 2019.
05/10/2021
HSBC on track to hire more than 1,000 Asian wealth roles this year in US$3.5 billion bet on region’s growing billionaires
Asia accounted for US$1.2 billion or two-thirds of HSBC’s adjusted profit before tax in the wealth and personal banking business in the first quarter
05/10/2021
China sets 150 billion RMB quota for Wealth Connect
Northbound refers to investments by Hong Kong and Macau residents in products distributed by Mainland banks in the Greater Bay Area.
05/10/2021
Asia's top consulting firms to work for according to big data
“Not only have we worked through a once-in-a-generation global pandemic, but decades of automation, the rise of artificial intelligence and a new shift to remote work have all reshaped what our professional lives look like – and what we’
05/08/2021
REITs will also see sector rotation
“Earnings growth in 2021 is now going to shift to those companies that were most negatively impacted by the pandemic.”
05/07/2021
Asset managers, brokers gear up for launch of China’s southbound Bond Connect
The launch of China’s southbound bond trading link will likely boost liquidity in Hong Kong and US dollar-denominated bonds, industry players say
05/05/2021
The China conundrum for wealth management companies
After Archegos, firms need to reassess risk of doing business in the country
05/05/2021
Finance workers to quit over flexibility
"New tools and greater trust, as well as new ways to measure productivity, will be the key to success in the workplace in the post-COVID-19 world,"
05/04/2021
Asia markets mostly down as inflation concerns persist
"people have money in their pocket and they're paying higher prices"
05/04/2021
Exchange Fund posts US$1.5 billion first-quarter gain, giving Hong Kong more financial fire power to defend currency
Exchange Fund, the war chest used to protect the city’s currency, stood at HK$4.54 trillion at the end of March