Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Super smashes gender diversity goals

The proportion of women holding seats in Australia's boardrooms grew 2.8 percentage points last year.

India's strong economy means robust growth for insurance

Liberalization of the reinsurance sector - with the admission of foreign reinsurers since 2017 and IRDAI's steps to ensure that they can compete with incumbents - will specifically benefit the non-life sector.

Allianz unveils new AGCS reinsurance branch in India; appoints CEO

The German insurer received the necessary reinsurance license from the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India earlier last year, following the Indian government’s move to amend regulations and open the reinsurance market to foreign

Hong Kong’s Value Partners cuts jobs after warning of profit slump

Value Partners has 230 employees following the layoffs.

Assets under management to surge in region: PwC

Asia-Pacific growth expected to outpace that of any other zone globally over next few years

Principal Global Investors sees growing Asian demand for its millennials strategy

The latter was developed by CIMB-Principal Asset Management, a 60:40 joint venture between PFG and Malaysian lender CIMB Group.

Why hedging can be effective in 2019

Hedging mechanisms can act as a buffer against price volatility and improve cost optimization, a strategy that when deployed effectively offers financial stability

Chinese outbound projects plunge, investors pull back from US

US think tank warns continued ‘financial strain’ may put the brakes on Beijing’s global trade and infrastructure programme

Baker advises on Indonesia divestment

LafargeHolcim’s divestment of its operations in Indonesia forms part of its strategy 2022

Indonesia mutual fund assets growth decelerates sharply in 2018

AUM growth decelerated sharply from 34.74% in 2017.

'UAE-India bilateral trade to exceed US$100bln by 2020', says UAE Minister

UAE and India enjoy long-standing and cordial relations across multiple fronts

Nomura Publishes Nomura Japan Equity Growth Potential Index

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China’s weak growth signals short-term pain

China’s annual GDP growth was the lowest in 28 years, and First State’s Martin Lau sees it as a risk to asset prices.

Fidelity launches its fourth onshore Chinese product

Only a handful of foreign managers have launched multiple products in China’s private fund market.

Nippon Life president says actively exploring M&A in US

"The United States is the world's largest life insurance market. We are looking for ways to expand our business there," President Hiroshi Shimizu told Reuters in an interview.

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

This is JCB's second publically-reported super fund mandate win in the last few months.

Investing for tomorrow: ESG in emerging market debt

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UAE investors can pick up some Belt & Road action

New fund offers stakes in property assets along China’s ambitious trade corridor

Aberdeen Standard Investments injects $13m in insurer Singapore Life

Singapore Life was said to acquire the business portfolio of Zurich Life Singapore.

DBS named to Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index for second year

Second-time inclusion in index underscores the bank’s firm commitment to gender equality

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