Managers of Wealth Asia Pacific

Malaysia’s KWAP to invest US$196 million in new global ESG initiatives

The funding is part of 3.8 billion ringgit that KWAP has allocated for ESG investments.

Korea’s top institutional investor eyes realty in major US cities

We’re reducing the proportion of equities in our investment as the overall stock market has been sluggish this year

Aging Asian Workforces Most Vulnerable to Workplace Automation According to Marsh & McLennan Companies’ Global Risk Center Report

The study found that five out of the top six countries – China, Vietnam, Thailand, South Korea and Japan – were located in the Asian Pacific.

China turns to Europe as US trade war hits investment

Report shows a dramatic swing in the first half of the year in FDI as Washington-Beijing standoff bites

HUB24 introduces low-cost product

HUB24 reported a 51.2% jump in FUA to $8.3 billion on the year prior.

Impact investing reports sharp growth

RIAA chief executive Simon O'Connor said most impact investments are made through private debt.

Aussie retirees blindsided by cost of living: Schroders

Sixty-one percent of retirees state they either don't have enough income or could do with more to live comfortably.

SANNE appointed Fund and Transaction Administrator for world’s first public bond issuance backed by private equity

"Our appointment reinforces our capability in the Asia Pacific region, where our offering has grown from strength to strength since launching just a few years ago."

Hong Kong’s CESC launches three sector- and factor-based indices

The northbound part of the programme allows foreign investors in Hong Kong to trade stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

Temasek expanding footprint in US despite trade tensions

The proportion trails Singaporean and Chinese investments, which make up 27 per cent and 26 per cent of the portfolio, respectively.

New Zealand banks' profits fall more than 10 per cent in first quarter

Mr Kensington said the dip in profits and higher bad debts would be watched especially given the growing global uncertainty and volatility.

Indonesia funds struggle in 2018

There are also huge differences in sector weightings, according to data from FE Analytics.

Can China’s US$941 billion wealth fund be the white knight to distressed stock, forex markets?

China’s equity and bond markets are under pressure from a trade war, a slowing economy and rising defaults, with the benchmark stock gauge slipping into a bear market last month.

Growing protectionism could slow investment in real estate, infrastructure by sovereign wealth funds

Preference for more liquid assets by Middle East funds and US disputes with key trading partners behind decline

Malaysia’s KWAP to extend ESG mandate to alternative investments

KWAP CEO Wan Kamaruzaman Wan Ahmad said the pension fund plans to increase external international fund managers for its ESG allocation from four to six.

China property investment softens in June

Investment in real estate development in the first six months of 2018 grew 9.7 per cent, solidly higher from the 8.7 per cent rate seen a year prior but 0.5 percentage points lower from the year through May.

Golden Equator Capital and Korea Investment Partners launch S$120m startup fund

The fund has 65 per cent committed capital to-date, and expects to fundraise the first phase of its fund by end-August and final phase by end-2018

China hands over billions of dollars to revive growth in Middle East

The relationship between the bank consortium, financial aid and overall loan package was not clear.

Hogan Lovells’ New Asia Pacific and Middle East Head Has Big Plans in an Interconnected World

Miguel Zaldivar is the first American partner to oversee the region for the firm. He wants to improve the interconnection between the firm's practices in the Asia Pacific/Middle East and its practices in the U.S. and Europe.

India's troubled Fortis picks IHH as its preferred suitor

IHH, Asia's largest private healthcare operator, will acquire a controlling stake in India's second largest hospital chain

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