Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

The World’s Biggest Pension Fund Has a $26 Billion War Chest for Japan Stocks

Pension fund purchases to provide support for stocks: Shinkin

Optimizing working capital through the use of big data

Making full use of internal and external analytical information can help companies manage and optimize their working capital much more effectively

Vietnam's VinaCapital acquires Singapore robo adviser Smartly

Citing figures from German data provider Statista, VinaCapital says robo-advisory services manage over US$980 billion of assets globally and it’s expected to expand at a 27% compound annual growth rate between 2019 and 2023.

Tensions between US-China over trade, technology ‘persistent’, could last for years, BlackRock says

Trade war weighing on confidence in capital expenditure and manufacturing, according to the BlackRock Investment Institute

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

Some managers with a negative market view held high cash levels.

Japan’s Answer to Its Pension Problems: Invest Like the U.S.

Report laying out need for savings to supplement state-pension payments spurs new interest in money management

Russell launches next gen managed accounts

The new managed accounts suite has launched on Praemium initially, but Hampshire said Russell plans to roll out the offering to other platforms very soon

ISA lays out $416bn super saving plan

The research acts on recommendation 3.5 of the Royal Commission's final report, which suggested Australians should retain one default super account, and the development of machinery to staple a person to a single default account

Charter Hall office fund plans A$500m fundraise to finance new deals

Matthew Brown, CPOF fund manager and head of office asset management at Charter Hall, told IPE Real Assets that existing investors with pre-emptive rights had already committed A$300m to the current raising, adding that the fund is in the process of talki

State Street opens new office in S. Korea

State Street anticipates signing the lease on its new office in August, and in the meantime, it will start operations in its temporary office located in a co-work space in Jeonju City.

China may slip back into its old habits as growth slows. That could raise debt levels again

Beijing has been trying to reduce the country's reliance on debt for growth, spur consumption and improve the ability of privately-run companies to obtain financing.

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

Of the total mandates appointed, 44% were for alternatives strategies, 30% was for equities, 14% for bonds/cash mandates and 12% for property mandates.

Transamerica Life Bermuda Honored by Industry Peers as Best in Class Life Insurer

Winner in the International Life Insurer of the Year (Hong Kong) category for the fourth year running

China to Step Up State Asset Transfers to Pension Funds

China’s social security fund is under increasing strain as a result of a rapidly aging population and a shrinking workforce

UBS AM debuts fund of hedge funds in China

The product adds to the firm’s two other onshore products launched via its private fund management licence.

Thailand's pension industry assets up 3.54% in January-May as contributors increase

Contributors can channel between 2% and 15% of their monthly salaries to their pension accounts, which is matched by employers.

HUB24 launches white label SMA

Additionally, HUB24 said it secured new clients with a network of financial advisers.

Perpetual Investments leaks $1.1bn

Their net inflows of $200 million were partly made possible through the roughly $400 million raised via a listed vehicle.

Nomura ordered to pay back US $25m

The SEC's orders further found that Nomura lacked compliance and surveillance procedures that were reasonably designed to prevent and detect this misconduct, which inflated the firm's profits on CMBS and RMBS transactions at its customers'

Singapore’s GIC raises stake in Spain’s ConnecT to 22.5%

GIC has been an active investor in Europe in recent years, entering into a number of deals in the last 12 months alone.

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