10/02/2018
Sale of Hong Kong life insurer collapses
Deposit of HK$710m lost after deal falls through
Alternative Investments
10/02/2018
Average clients excluded due to royal commission
“This has resulted in clients who were not getting value for money leaving their adviser and either going it alone, or looking for alternative advice options, such as what they may find in an industry fund network,” Mr Walker-Powell said.
10/02/2018
JCB and Nowcast to Release Updated Big Data Consumption Index JCB Consumption NOW: Now visualizes more detailed consumption trends in Japan
JCB Consumption NOW was launched in May 2017 to enable users to track Japan retail consumption trends on a real-time basis.
10/02/2018
ABAX rebrands to Ocorian
African trade and business expansion experts, Abax Corporate Services (ABAX), renamed Ocorian following buyout
10/02/2018
Fidelity cuts management fees
Fidelity has also dropped the fee for the hedged version of Fidelity's Global Equities Fund to 1.04%.
10/02/2018
Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. Announces Strategic Investment In Blockchain Business Galileo Platforms
Greenlight Re Innovations believes that in the new digital ecosystem, blockchain has the potential to dramatically restructure the way insurance is distributed.
10/01/2018
Nomura Announces Status of Share Buyback Program from Market / Nomura Selected as Component of Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
Pursuant to the company’s articles of incorporation set out in accordance with Article 459-1 of the Companies Act of Japan.
10/01/2018
GIC nabs crown as Europe's top overseas private equity investor in Q2
GIC’s notable European investments include capital injections for Helsinki-based healthcare
10/01/2018
ESG Investing Enters Portfolio Mainstream
It also found that 85 percent of investors in Singapore are interested in sustainable investing, breaking down to 97 percent of women and 94 percent of people in the 18-34 age bracket.
10/01/2018
Banks embrace blockchain to remain relevant
HSBC and MUFG adopt technology as more transactions bypass lenders
09/30/2018
Singapore launches national platform to digitalise trade
The electronic trade information obtained from the NTP will help us to ensure data integrity as well as improve our process efficiency.
09/28/2018
Asia ex Japan:Region's financial asset growth slows but stays world's fastest
Growth in households’ debt moved sideward, however, on a high level, declining from 16.5% to 15.8% in 2017.
09/28/2018
Malaysia's EPF plans to increase private equity allocation
The EPF currently allocates 2% of total assets to private equity and is targeting to increase this “to above 3% over the next ten years
09/28/2018
BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia
If you have a product that is in a single market-maker model and the market starts to tank, you have one trading desk to get a price and you have no pricing competition.
09/28/2018
Pinnacle launches new affiliate
Pinnacle will hold 40% of the total shareholding in Longwave and represents less than 1% of the voting shares.
09/28/2018
Nikko Asset Management and ARK Investment Management launch disruptive innovation UCITS fund
The Fund’s investment team utilises an open research approach that is designed to identify innovation and its convergence across sectors, economies and geographies.
09/27/2018
As trade war rumbles, China steps up opening of financial markets
China has accelerated the opening up of its capital markets this year to mitigate the negative impact (of the trade war)
09/27/2018
Business elite hit by collapse of tech startup Fulcrum
The big data market for the global finance sector alone is worth $9 billion this year.
09/27/2018
Shanghai Could Become Asia's New York, Top Sovereign Fund Says
Norway’s wealth fund is centering Asia efforts on Shanghai
09/27/2018
Investec brings China fund to Malaysia
The fund will be TA Investment’s first China-focused offering.