02/23/2017
Looking from the outside in
The DBS Bank wealth management mantra is that being fully digital yet embedded within the daily lives of its customers is the only way it will survive the next 10 years.
Wealth and Asset Management
02/22/2017
Japanese Bank Pulls Out of Geneva
Mitsubishi was the largest Japanese bank still present in Geneva.
02/22/2017
Reinventing advice and value in Asian wealth management
As long as the incentive structures at most banks don’t change, the style and substance of advice given to clients will be questionable.
02/22/2017
China's Wealth-Management Time Bomb
The overhaul involves regulators for the banking, securities and insurance sectors.
02/22/2017
India expected to be among top performing wealth markets till 2026
Global wealth is expected to rise by 35 per cent over the next decade.
02/21/2017
Chinese Banks' Off-Book Wealth Products Exceed $3.8 Trillion
The products are a key reason behind the growth of shadow banking in China, and have been used by some financial institutions as a way to extend funds to risky borrowers and evade capital requirements.
02/20/2017
Bank of Singapore: Milestone in the Middle East
Bank of Singapore is expanding in a competitive market where a number of foreign banks such as Citigroup and HSBC operate alongside the private banking units of local banks.
02/17/2017
Anand Rathi buys Religare’s wealth management arm
The sale of the wealth management unit to Anand Rathi is part of restructuring process initiated by Religare group founders Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh
02/17/2017
How Cazenove caters to a niche for discretion
This goes to the heart of the philosophy of Cazenove Capital Management.
02/17/2017
UBS: Five More Years of «Webermotti»
What are the mid-term career plans of UBS' top two?
02/16/2017
Lombard Odier, the Swiss private bank, has grown substantially in Asia over the past year and now needs larger premises to cope with the bigger number of clients.
It prefers to get discretionary mandates instead, which today amount to about 60 percent of the portfolios in the region.
02/15/2017
Bank of Singapore Hit in the Fourth Quarter
Bank of Singapore finalised its acquisition of Barclays Wealth last year, paying less that the original sticker price due to a number of bankers and clients not making the transition to the new owners.
02/15/2017
HSBC GAM launches Asian high income product
A maximum of 45% can be allocated into high yield and non-rated bonds, and the indicative portfolio suggests a 40% allocation into these assets.
02/15/2017
CBA records $4.9bn half-year profit
Breaking down CBA's half-year results, its wealth division profit was down 34% on the same period for 2015.
02/14/2017
ANZ: Just a «Ludicrous» Notion
The Melbourne bank has been gradually shedding its holdings in Asia – the most recent being the disposal of it's 20 percent stake in China's Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank.
02/13/2017
New Executive Director at J.Safra Sarasin
J.Safra Sarasin has made another addition to its growing team
02/12/2017
Sanctum Wealth Management embraces the long view
Sanctum Wealth Management is off to a flying start
02/12/2017
Enabling the growth of wealth advice in India
Technology will then serve as a real enabler to reduce the labour intensity of many processes
02/10/2017
A right royal play for Aussie fashion stable
It has lobbed a $135 million bid for the owner of clothing chains including Rivers and Katies, according to speculation sweeping the market.
02/10/2017
Abu Dhabi fund Mubadala opposes Witkoff’s bid to lead sale of Low’s Park Lane stake
Sovereign wealth fund wants to put whole project on the block