Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Aberdeen Standard Investments Adds New Financial Planning Firms to Growing SMA Service

The investment solutions embrace goals-based investing to deliver specific outcomes for clients through all market conditions.

Red flag waves as demand wanes at Southeast Asia bond auctions

Taken as a whole, these developments suggest the rally in Southeast Asian bonds following the initial outbreak of the coronavirus is starting to look like it may be over.

Japan's retail property sector leads market rally as lockdowns ease

MSCI's index of Japanese Real Estate Investment Trusts has risen 11.6 per cent since May.

Iress sweetens OneVue offer

OneVue shareholders will meet virtually to consider and vote on the proposal on 9 October 2020.

China's bond market could appeal in low-yield world

“Realignment of investors to the changes in global benchmarks will prompt a flow of passive money into the Chinese bond market, creating an additional form of support,”

Corporate fund overhauls admin fees, premiums

The dollar-based admin fee will be gone from 1 October 2020.

Amundi JV with BOC WM approved

The tie-up between the French asset manager and the Bank of China wealth management subsidiary is the first to get the go-ahead.

Noah mulls China retail fund business

The Chinese wealth manager has also applied for a mutual fund advisory licence in the country.

Baillie Gifford sets up team in China

The firm has relocated three of its investment staff to Shanghai from Edinburgh.

NZ Super invests in Movac’s US$250 million technology fund

NZ Super is investing $70 million and government fund NZ Group Capital Partners is putting in up to $30 million, NZ Super says in a statement on September 23.

Malaysia’s fund industry assets up 2.54% in January-July on bond gains

Bond fund assets jumped 12.12% to 203.65 billion ringgit between January and July.

SMSF changes unlikely to mushroom new funds

Thorp says even though four members have been allowed, so far majority of SMSFs (93%) only had two or fewer members in 2017-18 according to ATO.

Fund seeks to internalise management

EDC said the change will eliminate all external fee payments and avoid perceived conflicts of interest which it says might exist within external management models.

Morningstar ratings tally for global equities

Six funds moved from silver to gold: Platinum Asia, Robeco Emerging Conservative Equity AUD, Stewart Investors W Worldwide Leaders, Stewart Investors W Worldwide Sustainability and T. Rowe Price Global Equity.

MLC cuts fees, commissions

Investors will also now receive a monthly fee rebate applied to all options excluding the cash fund.

BlackRock clamps down on work romances

BlackRock is urging its employees to disclose their involvement in office romances, as well as intimate relationships with anyone associated with the US$7.4 trillion asset manager, in a bid to crack down on conflicts of interest.

Ex-DBS Chairman Launches Venture Capital Firm

Altara intends to invest $3 million to $5 million in early-stage companies and has already investments Philippines digital bank Tonik, mobile-first consumer credit platform Stashfin and deep tech/AI startup Senseye.

Hedge fund Marshall Wace to open Singapore office

Move by $48bn asset manager follows strong growth and doubts on Hong Kong’s future

PE funds face array of appealing structuring options in Asia

Data from AVCJ underscores that there were around 565 PE companies in mainland China and Hong Kong at the end of last year.

Franklin Templeton readies two funds for HK

One is a global multi-asset fund with a focus on income, while the other is an unconstrained fixed income strategy.

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