05/23/2014
US bank in talks with the Chinese wealth management company to sell JV
The deal is expected to be finalised very soon
Wealth and Asset Management
05/23/2014
Individual Investors in Hong Kong, China Turn Cool on Shun Property
Activity in the property market is falling off
05/23/2014
Malaysia's Maybank launches $305 mln Japanese bonds
The bond is part of a $5 billion multi-currency medium-term note programme
05/23/2014
Financial Times To Host 3rd Asset Management Summit In Hong Kong
The 3rd annual Financial Times Asset Management Summit will be held on June 19 in Hong Kong.
05/22/2014
Barclays to Credit Suisse Shrink Singapore Space
Banks reduced staff and hired fewer people
05/22/2014
Australia: Deutsche Bank local arm swings to profit
Deutsche Bank’s Australian arm has returned to profitability after cutting costs, providing new country head James McMurdo a platform for growth
05/22/2014
Malaysia's CIMB posts record net interest income in Q1
Southeast Asian banks have been on a roll, benefiting from booming property markets and double-digit growth for both consumer and corporate loans in rapidly expanding economies like Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.
05/22/2014
Head Of collas Crill Singapore To Speak At WealthBriefingAsia Summit
He will discuss key themes that wealth managers and financial advisors currently face
05/22/2014
Worldwide Expat Resource, Expatwomen.com, Sold to Expat Investor in the Middle East
Australian Entrepreneur, Andrea Martins, co-founder of expatwomen.com announced today the sale of the website to an expat investor in the Middle East in an undisclosed six figure deal.
05/22/2014
UBS Optimus Foundation to double India investments
This Foundation had invested as much as 8.75 lakh swiss francs in various projects in India.
05/21/2014
Tighter scrutiny of potential mainland clients by banks in Hong Kong
International wealth managers in Hong Kong, especially private banks from Switzerland, with its long history of banking secrecy, are tightening their background checks on potential Chinese clients, especially those with important political ties.
05/21/2014
Belgian family office clinches Sula deal
Sula founder and family will keep 40% stake
05/21/2014
BNP Paribas Wealth Management Unveils Its New Brand Positioning
It has been adapted in some 30 countries with local brand identities and in 11 different languages.
05/21/2014
Singapore is Expected to Overtake Switzerland as the World’s Epicentre of Wealth Management: AsiaBiz Services
Asiabiz Services shares how Singapore’s rise to global financial dominance came about.
05/21/2014
Private banks get familiar to woo ultra-rich
As more private banks jostle to manage the wealth of the top one per cent of income earners in Singapore, some are wooing their top clients by getting to know more generations of the family
05/20/2014
Singapore Millionaires Tapped by China Developers: Asean Credit
Chinese developers, faced with surging local borrowing costs and a cooling property market, are tapping Singapore’s more than 100,000 millionaires with record bond sales.
05/20/2014
Asia’s top 25 women: Vicky Li, Liew Tzu-Mi
AsianInvestor profiles Vicky Li of China’s State Administration of Foreign Exchange and Liew Tzu-Mi of Singapore’s GIC from our list of the most influential women in asset management.
05/19/2014
The overlooked Asian banks currently staffing up (and paying well) in Singapore and Hong Kong
But their brand is not that attractive in HK as candidates perceive them as a small player
05/19/2014
Asia's Wealth Explosion Draws Private-Banker Swarm
Seeking to Capture the Opportunity, Banks Go on a Hiring Spree
05/19/2014
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing on South Australian asset buy-up
Few South Australians would know his name, but his company owns half of our power network, many of our vineyards, and now has its sights set on buying the state’s gas network for $2.37 billion.